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The Parallel Programming Library (PPL) provides a TTask class to run one task or multiple tasks in parallel. A Task is a unit of work you need to get done. The PPL does the association between the task and the thread that performs the task so you can run several tasks in parallel without having to create your own custom threads and managing them.

TTask creates and manages interaction with instances of ITask. ITask is an interface that provides a range of methods and properties to Start, Wait, Cancel and also a property for Status (Created, WaitingToRun, Running, Completed, WaitingForChildren, Canceled, Exception).

TTask provides WaitForAll and WaitForAny to wait for the completion of all or any tasks. WaitForAll returns when all of the tasks are completed, whereas WaitForAny tells you the first one that is completed. For example, if you have two tasks A and B which take 3 and 5 seconds respectively, the time for you to get a result is:

• Sequentially (not using TTask/ITask) = 8 seconds
• TTask.WaitForAny = 3 seconds
• TTask.WaitForAll = 5 seconds 

The following example uses the WaitForAll method:

procedure TFormThreading.MyButtonClick(Sender: TObject);
var 
 tasks: array of ITask; 
 value: Integer; 
begin 
 Setlength (tasks ,2); 
 value := 0; 
 
 tasks[0] := TTask.Create (procedure () 
   begin 
   sleep (3000); // 3 seconds 
   TInterlocked.Add (value, 3000); 
  end); 
 tasks[0].Start; 
 
 tasks[1] := TTask.Create (procedure () 
   begin 
   sleep (5000); // 5 seconds 
   TInterlocked.Add (value, 5000);
 end); 
 tasks[1].Start; 
 
 TTask.WaitForAll(tasks); 
 ShowMessage ('All done: ' + value.ToString); 
end;

void __fastcall TFormThreading::MyButtonClick(TObject *Sender)
{
   _di_ITask tasks[2];
 
   tasks[0] = TTask::Create(_di_TProc(new TCppTask(lvalue, 3000, Label1)));
   tasks[0]->Start());
 
   tasks[1] = TTask::Create(_di_TProc(new TCppTask(lvalue, 5000, Label1)));
   tasks[1]->Start());
 
   TTask::WaitForAll(tasks,(sizeof(tasks)/sizeof(tasks[0])-1));
   ShowMessage("All done! "+IntToStr(lvalue));
}

 
procedure TFormThreading.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
 aTask: ITask;
begin
 aTask := TTask.Create (procedure ()
   begin
     sleep (3000); // 3 seconds
     ShowMessage ('Hello');
   end);
 aTask.Start;
end;

void __fastcall TFormThreading::Button1Click(TObject *Sender)
{
  Label1->Caption = "--";
  lvalue = 0;
  _di_ITask aTask = TTask::Create(_di_TProc(new TCppTask(lvalue,3000,Label1)));
  aTask-> Start();
  Label1->Caption =InToStr(lvalue);
}

aITask.Status
GetStatus

   TTaskStatus = (Created, WaitingToRun, Running, Completed, WaitingForChildren, Canceled, Exception);

listTask: TList<ITask>;

for i := listTask.Count - 1 downto 0 do
begin
   if (listTask.Items[i].Status = TTaskStatus.Completed) then
   begin
     listTask.Delete(i);
   end;
end;

listTask.Add(TTask.Create(self.mythread));
listTask.Items[listTask.Count - 1].Start;

  for i := listTask.Count - 1 downto 0 do
  begin
    if listTask.Items[i].Status in [TTaskStatus.Running, TTaskStatus.Created, TTaskStatus.WaitingToRun] then
    begin
      while not(listTask.Items[i].Status in [TTaskStatus.Completed, TTaskStatus.Canceled, TTaskStatus.Exception]) do
      begin
        Sleep(500);
        Application.ProcessMessages;
      end;
    end;
  end;
  Label1.Text:='disConnect OK!!'

  for i := listTask.Count - 1 downto 0 do
  begin
     listTask.Items[i].wait(5000);

  end;