"Matthew Tylee Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>I appear to be having some problems with the isAlive() method of
> detecting if a thread is alive/active/running or not. I'd be grateful
> for any advice.
>
Your comments about restartable threads got me thinkin
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:38:20 +, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> Methods defined in a thread class but called from outside the
> running thread run in the environment of the caller, not as part of the
> thread (and if the method manipulates state you may run into conflicts).
Thanks very much;
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 13:24:21 +0100, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
> There seems to be a misunderstanding of threads. You don't call functions
> in a thread from the main program. If you call a function from the main
> thread then the function is executed in the main thread. That's true for
> a
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Tylee Atkinson wrote:
> They way I want it to work is this: The downloading thread, when
> spawned, stays alive for the duration of the program. Occasionally the
> main program will call a function in it to download the data and save it
> as files on disk. Then,
