[Lazarus] Help: Multithreading

[Clinton Shane Wright]

Hi everyone,

I hope that someone can help me understand a little bit better on how to
work with threads in Lazarus. I am still learning so please forgive my
ignorance in any matter here. I am using the multithreading.lpi example
supplied with lazarus and I create a type TMyThread of class TThread and I
have the Execute and other procedures made for the TMyThread thread. I have
got the thread running well, but now I dont understand how to make another
instance of the same thread and how write my code to identify which
instance is running so that I can assign different tasks to each thread
individually.

On Form Create Procedure I have (as in the mulithreading example), MyThread
:= TMyThread.Create(False); This creates and instance of the type
TMyThread. I got that. I got that working. Now with the same procedures if
I go ahead and create another instance in the On Form  Create Procedure,
MyThread2 := TMyThread.Create(False); How do I use this second instance to
do different work in the same procedures. I hope that whoever reads this
can get what I am saying. I will post a link to the code below and I hope
that someone can advise me. Any help is much appreciated.

If I may add, I am using the thread to read data from a modem from the
RS232, but now I have more than one modem connected to the system that I
need to read from at once and having it run in one thread gets slower as I
add one modem extra to the thread, I want to use the second instance,
TMyThread2 to control the modem 2.

http://www.heypasteit.com/clip/0FVU

Please I am desperate to know how to use this correctly.

Thank you kindly.

Clinton Wright
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