Hi, Thanks for your reply. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Patrick Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm hoping someone here will be able to help as I've been struggling with > > this problem for a few days now. > > > > I'm working on an application that is creating a ProgressDialog, and then > > creating a thread that runs a function from another module in the program. > > > > The problem is, when the cancel button on the ProgressDialog is pressed, the > > thread that was created continues to run. How can I make it so that when > > the cancel button on the dialog is clicked, the spawned thread dies? > > Have the main thread set a flag telling the worker thread to exit, and > have the worker thread check that periodically when it knows it's in a > safe state to exit. >
This would work, unfortunately, the thread that it spawns calls a function in a loop, that function has an incredibly long run-time, on the order of minutes (possibly hours depending on the input), and that function, its self is multithreaded. This means that the worker thread could only check the flag after each completion of this long-running function. Given that this is the situation, is it possible to do what I mentioned above? Or does the long running function prevent any nice way of doing this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
