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    Event's code runs to completion before another event's code is entered?

    If the user types into the TextBox of a combobox it works OK. But if he hold
    a key down so the letter repeats quickly the code runs into trouble.

    My questions are:

    Is it true that an event's code is normally run to completion before another
    event's code is entered (KeyUp in my case)?

    If that is true and there are exceptions that let another event start do
    they include:

    When DoEvents is executed?
    When File I/O is executed?

    Any others...

    I don't believe there is a DoEvents in the executed code but there is
    definitely file I/O.

    It's a large program and difficult to find things out by experimenting. If I
    had the answers to the above it would help much.



    Thanks


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    • =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=F6ran_Andersson?=
      #2
      Re: Event's code runs to completion before another event's code isentered?

      Academia wrote:
      If the user types into the TextBox of a combobox it works OK. But if he hold
      a key down so the letter repeats quickly the code runs into trouble.
      What kind of trouble?
      My questions are:
      >
      Is it true that an event's code is normally run to completion before another
      event's code is entered (KeyUp in my case)?
      The events are queued in the message queue of the application, and the
      queue is handled in the main thread, one message at a time.
      If that is true and there are exceptions that let another event start do
      they include:
      >
      When DoEvents is executed?
      Yes, the DoEvents call will consume any available messages from the queue.
      When File I/O is executed?
      No.
      Any others...
      No.

      --
      Göran Andersson
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      http://www.guffa.com
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        • Academia
          #3
          Re: Event's code runs to completion before another event's code is entered?

          I just erassed the answer I was typying because something occured to me.

          Holding a key down proprably generates many KeyPreses but no KeyUp event
          until the key is released.

          Not sure what other events are raised, but maybe TextChanged and others are
          happening without the KeyUp I expected per input character and coded for.

          I'll have to go look at the code.

          Any way I can run the code and see which events were raised between the
          KeyPress and the KeyUp events?

          thanks

          "Göran Andersson" <guffa@guffa.co mwrote in message
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          Academia wrote:
          >If the user types into the TextBox of a combobox it works OK. But if he
          >hold a key down so the letter repeats quickly the code runs into trouble.
          >
          What kind of trouble?
          >
          >My questions are:
          >>
          >Is it true that an event's code is normally run to completion before
          >another event's code is entered (KeyUp in my case)?
          >
          The events are queued in the message queue of the application, and the
          queue is handled in the main thread, one message at a time.
          >
          >If that is true and there are exceptions that let another event start do
          >they include:
          >>
          > When DoEvents is executed?
          >
          Yes, the DoEvents call will consume any available messages from the queue.
          >
          > When File I/O is executed?
          >
          No.
          It must release the CPU while waiting for the i/o to complete.

          >
          > Any others...
          >
          No.
          >
          --
          Göran Andersson
          _____
          http://www.guffa.com

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            • =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=F6ran_Andersson?=
              #4
              Re: Event's code runs to completion before another event's code isentered?

              Academia wrote:
              Holding a key down proprably generates many KeyPreses but no KeyUp event
              until the key is released.
              Correct.
              Not sure what other events are raised, but maybe TextChanged and others are
              happening without the KeyUp I expected per input character and coded for.
              The key events are put in the same queue as other events, and are
              handled by the same message pump. If a keypress for example changes the
              apperance of a control, the messages that tells the control to change
              itself is added to the message queue.
              Any way I can run the code and see which events were raised between the
              KeyPress and the KeyUp events?
              You could add Debug.Write statements to the event handlers, so that you
              can track what's happening. (Debugging and putting break points in the
              event handlers might not work very well, as you interfer so much on the
              event handling process that way.)
              >> When File I/O is executed?
              >No.
              >
              It must release the CPU while waiting for the i/o to complete.
              Yes, but not to the thread that called the I/O operation. Whatever the
              computer does while waiting for the I/O, it's not consuming event
              messages in your application.

              --
              Göran Andersson
              _____
              guffa.com
              http://www.guffa.com
              Göran Anderssons privata hemsida.

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