STD Integrated Framework - PowerBuilder 2021 Multi-Threading Example!

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PowerBuilder 2021 - Multi-threading Example!

    Software Tool & Die Inc. (STD) are pleased to announce the release of an updated STD Integrated Framework example application that utilizes the framework to implement Application multi-threading! The multi-threading feature inside PowerBuilder has been around since version 5.0 when the Distributed PB feature was first introduced. However, it is not a well documented and known feature of the development tool. The STD Multi-threading example goes even further by allowing applications to utilize the vast resources of Integrated framework while taking multi-threading to a higher functional level. The framework allows the PB developer to easily implement multi-threading and be more productive at the same time! 

 

    The updated Multi-threading example application now utilizes the latest STD Integrated Framework (version 2022.2.0.285 beta released on 2022-04-04) and the newest Appeon PowerBuilder 2021 release (build 1506). Improvements in this release include:

• Migration App code to PB 2021 build 1506
• Migration of the STD Framework from 2019R1 to 2022R2
• Removal of all Appeon Web product code.
• Better performance (20% improvement). 
• Tested the Base64 code on W10 version 21H2 build 19044.1645
• Tested the Base64 code on W11 version 21H2 build 22000.613

Note: The STD Framework is the only PB framework in existence that is both thread aware and multi-thread safe!

    The Integrated framework allows each thread to be monitored by the frameworks performance dialogue, write to the O/S Console, log a message in the main tread's application log, share DBMS access, send messages back & forth between threads or between the main thread and its sub-threads, introspect the O/S, etc - just to name a few interesting aspects. Messages may also now be written to the MS-Windows Event Log and MS-Windows Debug logs as well from each sub-thread!

  The latest STD multi-threaded PowerBuilder example application can now be downloaded from the SourceForge website. Please click here to download & enjoy!

  

  For a complete PowerPoint presentation on how Multi-Threading in Appeon PowerBuilder works, please click here to download this PPT presentation.
  

Regards ... Chris