Thread: 2 loops at once?

Cool, but now another problem. I now get a million of linker errors such as:

[Warning] cannot find entry symbol _mainCRTStartup; defaulting to 00401000
[Linker error] undefined reference to `GetStdHandle@4'
[Linker error] undefined reference to `FillConsoleOutputAttribute@20'



I thought i heard about this before somewhere, but i cant remember where.

Hahahahaha
I was screwing around with some options and accidently got it to work...I think

Okay guys, you are probably getting bored with me by now, but I am getting the craziest errors ever. When the program that I wrote runs all sorts of wierd things happen. The text that is supposed to be displayed gets displayed at different parts and times and all these wierd hexadecimal things come up in the place of the missing text. Also, the program just randomly closes.
Is this common? If you need the code just ask, cuz this project I am making is just helping me learn new things and its kind of big and sloppy.

It's entirely possible that your data is getting corrupted by the thread. If the thread is accessing the same data that the main program is (including cout and printf), you'll get problems with things getting mixed up since threads don't share nicely (unless you do synchronization stuff).

oh god....
I guess I learn new things.....
Is there a way to tell if that is happening?

Not really

Why do you need two loops running simultaneously anyway? If at all possible, I suggest you do it in just one loop. It's usually not worth the headache of thread-related problems (although there ARE uses for threads).

Yeah, for example, you could make a for loop and execute one function on even numbered loops and the other function on odd numbers.

Yeah, for example, you could make a for loop and execute one function on even numbered loops and the other function on odd numbers.

Well, that would be ONE way of 'faking' multithreading (ironical isn't it, he wanted multithreading because he wanted to use two loops side by side)

But if there's no problem with the loops running side by side, there should be no problem even if the two function calls are within the same loop:

Code:

while(!done)
{
   doLoopStatements1();
   doLoopStatements2();
}

Well, I dont need to, but I'd like to.
And I understand what you are saying about combining the loops.
Now that I think about it actually, my program used to run like that, but it didnt do everything I wanted it to because one of the loops keeps updating itself, while the other is the interactive part of the program. The second one doesnt continuously run. It stops for input and things like that. So it would it would kind of ruin the whole point of the first loop. I will google synchronization and see what it comes up with.

But if there's no problem with the loops running side by side, there should be no problem even if the two function calls are within the same loop

????What do you mean by that?????

>>It stops for input and things like that.
You would do well to look into a function such as _kbhit() (or whatever your compiler might have), even though it's nonstandard. What it does is return non-zero if a key has been pressed but has not yet been read by cin.get() or whatever, and false if no key has been pressed yet. That way in your loop you can check kbhit() and if it returns true, THEN get user input... and if it returns false, then screw input and keep on going with whatever else you're doing.

**EDIT**
>>????What do you mean by that?????
Basically I'm restating that you should mash your two loops together Although the blocking input (cin) makes that a little more complicated, the solution I just posted about kbhit() should help.

I'll try that out!
Hey I actually understand what you are saying this time!
Oh crap porbably should get some sleep for school tomorrow...God I hate ninth grade....

**EDIT**
Wait a minute. If I use the kbhit() thing wouldn't that require an extra keystroke?