Hi Nuno.
MapBasic statement execution in MapInfoPro isn't a thread safe operation so we don't really support invoking the commands from a secondary thread. We actually have an item on our backlog to establish better best practices, and generate better errors in the event the AddIn attempts to execute MB on a background thread. Since MIPro is only thread safe in limited operations, the expectation is that, even if we allowed the MB statement to be executed from a background thread, we would necessarily marshall the execution to the main thread anyway. At the moment, as you've discovered, we don't prevent the execution of the statement, but it's not a safe operation.
It seems as if, in your case, the Register Table command was successful, but the Open Table... Interactive was not (and I wouldn't expect this to work).
Just as a side-note, the MapInfo Data Access Library (MDAL) is thread safe and may be used in .NET add-in to open tables on a background thread...but tables opened via MIPro/MapBasic itself are necessarily opened on the main thread.
-hth
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John Teague
PITNEY BOWES SOFTWARE, INC
Troy NY
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-04-2019 04:41
From: Nuno Seixas
Subject: .Net Background Worker Thread
Hi all,
I'm trying to call a MapBasic function through .Net to register a .txt file as a table.
MapInfoProAddInBase.CallMBFunction("RegisterTXTFile", "file.txt,tableName,tableAlias," + true);My problem is, when I call this from a BackgroundWorker it does't work. I can reach the function. but at some point it just stop working.
Register Table gsOutputFolder + stxtfile TYPE ASCII Delimiter 44 Charset "WindowsLatin1" Into ctemppath & "AAA.TAB"Open Table ctemppath & "AAA.TAB" Interactive
This first line works. but after that is stops.
Any idea why is that happening?
Thanks.
PS. If I call this from my main thread it works.
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Nuno Seixas
Buchanan Computing Ltd
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