Re: Another SetTimer question
learnyourabc wrote:
Yes, I am trying to add a timedelay in the worker thread.How to do
this?? Previously I was using sleep(5000) in the worker thread but I
need to be able to break out of the timedelay if the user were to
click on the exit button on the menu.
The main thread is running the GUI message dispatch so the user can
continue to use the user interface
The worker thread is doing some background tasks and I do not want to
change the code inside the worker thread done(old code I do not want
to touch) as much as possible.
Can I just use waitforsingleobject(handle, 5000) to make it wait for 5
secs and then somehow set teh handle to signal when the exit button is
pressed in the main thread.
All I want is just a timedelay inside the worker thread that can be
interrupted by the user.
leranyourabc:
It's still not so clear to me what you are trying to do.
What is this thread doing, and why do you need it?
Do you want to interrupt the thread while it working, or while it is
sleeping, or just once per "iteration"?
It seems your worker thread must have some kind of loop; I would say get
rid of the loop and just launch the thread once every five seconds,
using a timer in the main thread. If the user has pressed cancel, don't
launch the thread.
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