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replace wxPostEvent with wxQueueEvent and update the thread sample description (the sample doesn't shows usage of wxMutexGuiEnter/Leave)

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Francesco Montorsi
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@section page_samples_thread Thread Sample
This sample demonstrates use of threads in connection with GUI programs.
There are two fundamentally different ways to use threads in GUI programs and
either way has to take care of the fact that the GUI library itself usually
is not multi-threading safe, i.e. that it might crash if two threads try to
access the GUI class simultaneously. One way to prevent that is have a normal
GUI program in the main thread and some worker threads which work in the
background. In order to make communication between the main thread and the
worker threads possible, wxWidgets offers the wxPostEvent
function and this sample makes use of this function.
access the GUI class simultaneously.
The other way to use a so called Mutex (such as those offered in the wxMutex
class) that prevent threads from accessing the GUI classes as long as any other
thread accesses them. For this, wxWidgets has the wxMutexGuiEnter
and wxMutexGuiLeave functions, both of which are
used and tested in the sample as well.
One way to prevent that is have a normal GUI program in the main thread and some
worker threads which work in the background. In order to make communication between
the main thread and the worker threads possible, wxWidgets offers the ::wxQueueEvent
function and this sample demonstrates its usage.
The other way is to use a ::wxMutexGuiEnter and ::wxMutexGuiLeave functions, but
this is not currently shown in the sample.
See also @ref overview_thread and wxThread.