From: "Dr. Vesselin Bontchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Instead, I suggest that on the form that does the scanning, you > listen to the nilEvent and scan only a single database when this > event occurs. This way you'll give up time to the OS do to other > things as well (e.g., alarms to trigger, clocks to be updated, etc.). (snip) > If you don't realize how to implement what I described above, > ask me by private e-mail; it's easy but a bit long to type here. (I'm > using a rather awkward Web interface to access this forum.) > There are a number of discussions in the archive relating to background processing that describe how to organise your event loop and avoid hogging the device, many relating to serial comms handling, but providing generic solutions.
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