Parallel Threading vs Serial Threading in Mechanical ACT

Ayush Kumar

Parallel Threading vs Serial Threading in Mechanical ACT

Ayush Kumar

Parallel Threading: The control moves over to the rest of the code, while part of the code is executed in a parallel thread.

Please note the "," after the 2nd argument is crucial.

Example:

import threading
msg_string = "Test String"

def show_info(message):
    MessageBox.Show(message)

thread = threading.Thread(target=show_info, args=(msg_string,))
thread.start()

Serial Threading: The control pauses till the user clicks OK in the MessageBox but the set of commands is executed in a separate thread.

Example:

msg_string = "Test String"

def show_info(message):
    MessageBox.Show(message)

ExtAPI.Application.InvokeUIThread(show_info, msg_string)