//the main function, call this to encode a frame -> starts thread workers after breaking image down.
public TMVFrame encode(Bitmap input)
{
cframe = new TMVFrame();
unprocessed = new Queue<Cell>();
for (int row = 0; row < 25; row++) //for each row
{
for (int col = 0; col < 40; col++) // for each cell
{
unprocessed.Enqueue(new Cell(getCell(input, row, col),(uint)((row*40)+(col)))); //add the new cell to our task pool
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < workers.Length; i++ ) //start the workers on our cell pool
{
workers[i] = new Thread(worker);
workers[i].Start(i);
}
while (unprocessed.Count > 0) {
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(50);
Application.DoEvents();
}
for (int t = 0; t < workers.Length; t++)
{
workers[t].Join();
}
return cframe;
}
public void addFrame(TMVFrame frame)
{
frames.Enqueue(frame);
}