Use a boolean.....e.g. in your case the handleScanButton() method must be
doing some function in a loop.
Initialize a boolean shouldRun to true first. Now put a check like:
handleScanButton()
{
while(shouldRun && <Your other conditions>)
{
<....your other code....>
}
}
Now make a stopThread method in which make this boolean false.e.g.
private void stopThread()
{
shouldRun = false;
}
Call this stopThread() method whenever you want to stop your thread.
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
-Deepak.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Panagiotis Plevrakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "JDJList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:12 AM
Subject: [jdjlist] stopping a Thread
> Can anybody show me a good non-deprecated way to stop scanThread in the
> following code? Setting it to null does not make her stop. What more
should
> I do to make her stop?
> ************************************************************
> btScan.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
> public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
> btScanCounter++;
> btScan.setText("Cancel Search");
> Thread t1 = new Thread() {
> public void run() {
> handleScanButton();
> }};
> if ((btScanCounter%2) == 0) {
> scanThread = null; // THIS DOES NOT WORK
> btScan.setText("Auto Search");
> } else {
> if (scanThread == null) {
> scanThread = new Thread(t1);
> scanThread.start();
> }
> }
> }});
> ************************************************************
>
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