On 4 October 2011 10:37, Frank Church <vfcli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What is the purpose of the while not Terminated in a threads execute loop? > If a thread is doing its own thing and knows when or not it has finished > what is the purpose of the while not Terminated > > Is Terminated designed to be called by other procedures besides the thread > itself? Can a thread be Terminated externally? > This also seems to imply that if the code within the while not Terminated > loop is a long running sequence a Termniate command will not be processed > until control returns to the beginning of the loop > > Can a thread respond to a new Execute command while it already Executing? > Do threads have ways of being interrogated about their state while > Executing? > > Suspend and Resume have been deprecated, and I want to know how a thread > can be suspended. > > If a thread is not set to FreeOnTerminate, can a thread suspend itself by > using Terminate or some other custom function, doing some clean ups and > waiting so it can be restarted by the Start procedure, by adding some custom > fields to make it itself aware that it is an a paused state, so that when an > Execute is sent it look up those fields, set Terminated to false and > continue as though nothing has happened? > > -- > Frank Church > >
Do the Start and Resume methods automatically call the Execute method? > ======================= > http://devblog.brahmancreations.com > -- Frank Church ======================= http://devblog.brahmancreations.com
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