# Threading

Cinema 4D is a multi-threaded application that handles different tasks in different threads. Certain operations can only be performed from within the main thread.
So a plugin must know its current thread context.

Both the Cinema API and the MAXON API provide tools to handle threads, create custom threads to perform multi-threaded operations.

Classic API:
- **c4d.threading.C4DThread**: *The base class for custom Cinema API threads. Operations can be done on multiple cores or in the background.*

## Examples

### threading_basic

    Demonstrates how to handle C4DThread from a script.

### threading_testdbreak

    Uses TestDBreak to define a custom condition to leave a thread.