Patrick Smith wrote:
> > Well, the problem is that you can't simply kill a thread--it shares
> > memory with other threads that it could be leaving in an inconsistent
> > state. Imagine that it was, say, holding a lock when it was forceably
> > killed. Now any other thread that tries to acquire t
"Nick Vatamaniuc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> If your thread is long running and it is not possible to easily set a
> flag for it to check and bail out, then how does it display the
> progress in the progress dialog. How often does that get updated? If
> the progr
> Well, the problem is that you can't simply kill a thread--it shares
> memory with other threads that it could be leaving in an inconsistent
> state. Imagine that it was, say, holding a lock when it was forceably
> killed. Now any other thread that tries to acquire that lock will
> block forever
If your thread is long running and it is not possible to easily set a
flag for it to check and bail out, then how does it display the
progress in the progress dialog. How often does that get updated? If
the progress dialog is updated often, then at each update have the
thread check a self.please_di
Patrick Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for your reply.
>
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> > [Re: cancelling a worker thread from the GUI thread]
> >
> > Have the main thread set a flag telling the worker thread to exit, and
> > have the worker thread check that periodi
Patrick Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for your reply.
>
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>>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 a
Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
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> 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 Progress
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.
>
> Th
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 butto
