Oh, the joy of writing multiple threaded applications. I like this little tip that will keep string formatting calls from stepping over each other.
The Format function isn’t thread-safe unless you use the overload which takes a FormatSettings argument (because the FormatSettings-less version uses global variables). I use it to compose error messages in a thread I’m writing, and I want to use the same FormatSettings as the user would normally see in a GUI app. So here’s what I did. I added a TFormatSettings field to my thread class:
TMyThread = <b>class</b>(TThread)<br><b>private</b><br> FFormatSettings: TFormatSettings;<br><b>protected</b><br><b>procedure</b> Execute; <b>override</b>;<br><b>end</b>;Then I set it at the start of the Execute method:
<b>procedure</b> TMyThread.Execute;<br><b>begin</b><br> GetLocaleFormatSettings(LOCALE_SYSTEM_DEFAULT, FFormatSettings);<br><b>end</b>;This seems to work well.
[Via Craig Stuntz’s Weblog]