Re: how to restart a thread?

From:
"mlimber" <mlimber@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
23 Feb 2007 07:28:25 -0800
Message-ID:
<1172244505.122778.314310@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com>
On Feb 23, 9:56 am, "fabiosc...@gmail.com" <fabiosc...@gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi, I'm writing a background timer using /cc++/thread.h.
this is my source code:

timer.h
-----------------------------------------------
#ifndef TIMER_H
#define TIMER_H
#include <cc++/thread.h>

using namespace std;
using namespace ost;

class Timer : public Thread
{
private:
    int timeout;
public:
    Timer();
    ~Timer();
    void setTimer(float t);
    void run();

};

#endif

timer.cpp
-------------------------------------
#include "timer.h"
#include <iostream>

Timer::Timer()
{

}

Timer::~Timer()
{
    terminate();

}

void Timer::setTimer(float t)
{
    timeout = (int)(t * 1000);

}

void Timer::run()
{
    sleep(timeout);
    exit();

}

I use my timer in this way:

                Timer *t1 = new Timer();
                float oldTimeout = 3;
                t1->setTimer(oldTimeout);
                t1->detach();

and then I want to restart it when expired:

    oldTimeout = 2*oldTimeout;
    t1->setTimer(oldTimeout);
    int i = t1->detach();

but i == -1 (error) and timer does not start again.

what's wrong?


We have no idea. Threads are not part of standard C++, and we don't
know anything about your thread library. Ask in a group that deals
with threads (e.g., comp.programming.threads) or in a forum for your
thread library. See:

http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/how-to-post.html#faq-5.9

Cheers! --M

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