On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 23:46:22 GMT, Bryan Olson wrote: > I think that's a good thing to do. The tricky part is getting an > event loop to wait on both the queue and other kinds of events. > Periodic polling works, but kind of sucks. > > What's the 'done' argument? A lock maybe?
'done' is just a boolean for the child thread to indicate it has finished. The main thread keeps a dictionary of references to the child threads so the app can send then 'abort' messages via their input Queues. When a child thread sets 'done' to True, the main thread deletes its reference from the dictionary. Periodic polling triggered by a timer in the X-app main loop was the only way I could think of checking for feedback from the child threads, not very neat though... Thanks to everyone for their input! -- Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
