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Hello.

I'm writing a script to work like a very simple download manager.

Is it possible to have a multi-thread in AU3?

Say it have a listbox with 3 downloads URLs and I want to download them in separed threads simultaneously. (not one after another)

Can AU3 handle this?

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No. And Multi-threading is not on the ToDo-list.

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Azevedo,

 

Is it possible to have a multi-thread in AU3?

As explained in multiple threads (pun intended) on the forum you cannot run several threads from one script. But you can run a child script multiple times from a parent, which in your case would seem to be enough. :)

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
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Azevedo,

 

As explained in multiple threads (pun intended) on the forum you cannot run several threads from one script. But you can run a child script multiple times from a parent, which in your case would seem to be enough. :)

M23

 

ok. But how would I have a callback from the child scripts? (error 404 / http 200 OK / download finished / ...)

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Azevedo,

Search for "inter process communication" - my personal favourite is trancexx's MailSlot. :)

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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You could use exit codes in your child scripts to get the outcome.

This requires that your main script waits for completion, like RunWait.

If that's not what you want you could look into inter process communication.

That comes to the problem here.

RunWait will be single thread.

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Azevedo,

 

I would never use such a dirty trick

Would you care to expand on that comment? I have found that UDF very useful on occasion and by no means would I describe it as a "trick". :huh:

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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Radiance & Azevedo,

Please read this announcement before posting again. :naughty:

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Open spoiler to see my UDFs:

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
Date_Time_Convert -- Easily convert date/time formats, including the language used
ExtMsgBox --------- A highly customisable replacement for MsgBox
GUIExtender -------- Extend and retract multiple sections within a GUI
GUIFrame ---------- Subdivide GUIs into many adjustable frames
GUIListViewEx ------- Insert, delete, move, drag, sort, edit and colour ListView items
GUITreeViewEx ------ Check/clear parent and child checkboxes in a TreeView
Marquee ----------- Scrolling tickertape GUIs
NoFocusLines ------- Remove the dotted focus lines from buttons, sliders, radios and checkboxes
Notify ------------- Small notifications on the edge of the display
Scrollbars ----------Automatically sized scrollbars with a single command
StringSize ---------- Automatically size controls to fit text
Toast -------------- Small GUIs which pop out of the notification area

 

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Azevedo,

 

Would you care to expand on that comment? I have found that UDF very useful on occasion and by no means would I describe it as a "trick". :huh:

M23

Sure!

It is wasteful (memory + cpu time) to open preccess trees to perform trivial tasks.

Then it would be not a child proccess, a grandchild proccess.

No way I'd pipe that way.

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Apologies, didn't mean to upset you.

It's just that IPC is not one of my favorite topics, I've tried so many variants and the one Melba23 statet is one of the best and cleanest.

I agree it is the best solution in AU3 programming.

But I'd never do that.

REAL multi threading is 100x faster and reliable than piping it through a 3 generation proccess tree.

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Are you enlightening us on the benefits of multithreading, or just disparaging the solutions that allow for IPC.

It is wasteful (memory + cpu time) to open preccess trees to perform trivial tasks.

 

 

This is a retarded statement, about a language that is transparently if not deliberately slow and wasteful.  If your mission is speed and efficiency you made the first wrong turn when you selected this language, and then the second was coming here to tell us about the obvious.

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Are you enlightening us on the benefits of multithreading, or just disparaging the solutions that allow for IPC.

 

This is a retarded statement, about a language that is transparently if not deliberately slow and wasteful.  If your mission is speed and efficiency you made the first wrong turn when you selected this language, and then the second was coming here to tell us about the obvious.

 

so unnecessary comment...

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I think I'm lost on a child of a child...

But more than that, there are many IPC methods, mailslot was only one of them.

TCP/UDP - Main script is the server, the child spawns do a quick client like

SQLite/File/Ini/Etc Method, not really recommended, all that fileopen/write/close/read, bound to overlap somewhere

GUIRegisterMsg + WM_COPY where you have two parts communicate via GUI

I'm sure there are others I'm missing off the top of my head, I think the point they were making was this...

Answering your question directly, No, there is no multi-threading in AutoIt, however an "alternative" may be IPC, and their opinion is that mailslot is the cleanest solution for their needs that they've encountered.

It didn't require a comment/reply, especially a derogatory one that has literally no merit here.

My suggestion... Create your application in a language in that supports multi-threading since you feel you understand it, and use the AutoItX dll to do the medial things you feel the language is for in the first place (I took the liberty of assuming here :) )... win ... win.

Edited by SmOke_N

Common sense plays a role in the basics of understanding AutoIt... If you're lacking in that, do us all a favor, and step away from the computer.

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