WaitForThread() ... Simple and Easy.

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:15 pm

Code updated For 5.20+

During my use of the hazard threading section of PB, there are times where I have to wait until a thread is finished before the program continues. Granted, at first, you may think, hey! Just use procedures ... however ...

Say you started a thread in the beginning of the program (such as listening on a certian port), and it runs during the course of your program, then during shutdown, you need to set the thread's shutdown flag, and then wait for the thread to shut down .... this code would be useful as you wouldnt want any thread leaks ...

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Procedure WaitForThread(Thread.l, Wait.l)
  Repeat
    Delay(Wait)
  Until IsThread(Thread) = #False
EndProcedure

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WaitForThread(Thread, 100)

Post by **freak** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:22 pm

PB has a WaitThread() command (since a long time), that is even more CPU efficient than your code.

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:35 pm

ooooo, figured I must of by passed it.

Bonne_den_kule · Post by **Bonne_den_kule** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:36 pm

lol, trying to reinvent the wheel, shannara?

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:01 am

With 2D engines, you have to

I dont know how I bypassed that command, it's even in the help file! Aaahhh! Oh well, I stopped using threading until final comes out (and hopefully fixes). But I decided to post this just in case people are still trying to use threading

But it seems all for naught! Today must be saturday .. those and mondays are always bad days.