Processing messages is too slow, resulting in a jerky, unresponsive UI - how can I use multiple threads to alleviate this?

Question

I\'m having trouble keeping my app responsive to user actions. Therefore, I\'d like to split message processing between multiple threads.

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Answer 1

You cannot have more than one thread which interacts with the message pump or any UI elements. That way lies madness.

If there are long processing tasks which can be farmed out to worker threads, you can do it that way, but you'll have to use another thread-safe queue to manage them.