You could create your own HitCollector that checked a flag on each hit, and 
throw an exception if it was set.
In a separate thread, you could set the flag to cancel the search.

-Yonik
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On 9/8/05, Kunemann Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 
> The problem is that when searching there is no real save point to stop
> the thread. The only line that takes time is this one:
> 
> Hits hits = searcher.search(query);
> 
> 
> Frank
> 
> >I've had such a long lasting search too. I sounds good to start the
> >search in another thread. I've done this for the indexing procedure.
> >This is started in another thread and the gui will be informed when
> >indexing is performed. If the user will stop it he has to click on a
> >button stop and then an event is send to the indexerthread. The
> >indexerthread stops if he reaches a safe point. Surely this is for
> >indexing but I think this would work for searching also.
> >stefan
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