--- Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In general I'v found that Thread cancellation is very painful,
> a simpler paradigm to utilize is the lock timeout with a Global
> variable status check.
Rather than check a global variable you could simply pass a null
event to the queue which instructs the thread to simply to finish
(a.k.a. return) gracefully. That way you can avoid the lock timeout
and polling.
On the GUI thread, however a timeout and poll may be necessary
depending on the framework.
____________________________________________________________________________________
Be a better pen pal.
Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how.
http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
