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. > > The problem is, when the cancel button on the ProgressDialog is pressed, the > thread that was created continues to run. How can I make it so that when > the cancel button on the dialog is clicked, the spawned thread dies?
Have the main thread set a flag telling the worker thread to exit, and have the worker thread check that periodically when it knows it's in a safe state to exit. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
