What is the best way to kill a thread when it pleases the owner
(main thread)? The background is playing audio files. The
playback happens in a separate thread so the owner can keep on
listening to events triggered by the user (like stop, pause). I
have to queue audio files, wait until one has finished, then play
the next etc. Communicating between threads does not work with
this technique:
Owner:
// create thread ...
...
auto isFinished = receiveOnly!bool();
Thread:
// play file ...
if (finished) {
ownerTid.send(true);
}
Of course, now Owner waits until it receives the message and is
deaf to any user input until Thread has finished, thus there is
no way to interrupt the playback. Is there a simple and elegant D
way to solve this? Slots are thread local so the observer doesn't
know what's going on in another thread, does it?
