Re: threads won't close and then reopen correctly...
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:03:18 -0700 (PDT), RAB <rabmissouri@yahoo.com>
wrote:
Thanks. Your responses helped me realize the thread was probably
behaving like it should. I then found my dumb mistake. I was using a
boolean variable in OnOK() to check if the dialog box had been
closed.
I don't know why you would do that.
Within my thread function I constantly had if() statements
checking for this boolean variable and if it was set then exit the
thread. However, I forgot that I had to set the variable to static or
my project wouldn't build.
Adding keywords until it builds is not the best strategy. :)
As a result, I assumed the variable would
reset itself each time the dialog opened, but because it was static,
it didn't.
Right. It should be a non-static member of the thread class. You always
have to think about object lifetimes, but if you apply the principles I
discuss in the page I linked to in my first message, it won't be a problem,
because the creator of the thread will turn off auto-deletion and thus own
the thread object and bear responsibility for deleting it (aka ending its
lifetime).
There is probably a better and easier way to teminate the
thread when the dialog closes?
I talk about that in the page I linked to in my first message.
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