| Multi-threading works in both Cicode and
CitectVBA. CitectVBA supports co-operative multi-threading at the
process level, which means that any single macro language
instruction (in CitectVBA or Cicode) that takes a long time to
execute will hang Citect for that period of time. In CitectVBA the
function CreateObject() generally takes a long time to execute. In
this case you are creating a word document so Citect will hang for
the period of time that it takes to run up Word. Incidentally, you
have the same limitations using Cicode with certain functions. For
instance, try connecting to a remote data base using the Cicode SQL
functions.
One way you can work around this is by creating the new Word
document on startup and then use it whenever you need it. You can
do this by having a single CitectVBA thread that creates the object
and then runs in a infinite while loop that acts as a state machine
(executes code appropriate to the state of specific tags - may make
use of a SELECT CASE statement) and does all that you require of
it. You can then control the state machine with variable tags that
are changed under semaphore (see the SemOpen() function in the
Citect Online Help).
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