Re: Killing thread from outside thread in MFC App

From:
Norbert Unterberg <nunterberg@newsgroups.nospam>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:31:51 +0200
Message-ID:
<esZHBcmfHHA.1816@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>
Rob schrieb:

Sorry, here's an extract of my code:

//Declaration:

 static UINT MyThreadProc(LPVOID p);
 void MyThreadProc();
 volatile BOOL running;

// begin thread when user presses Go
void CSmartTimerDlg::OnGo()
{
    .
    .
    .
    running = TRUE;
    AfxBeginThread(MyThreadProc, this);
}

UINT CSmartTimerDlg::MyThreadProc(LPVOID p)
{
     CSmartTimerDlg * me = (CSmartTimerDlg *)p;
     me->MyThreadProc();
     return 0;
}

void CSmartTimerDlg::MyThreadProc()
{
     processing code here
}


Abnd what does the "processing code" do? It has to check the boolean variable
inside its processing loop and leave the ThreadProc when it is set to true. just
declaring a boolean somewhere and setting it does not cause a thread to quit.
The thread has to check the boolean and react on it.

//When user presses clear button to cancel on dialog box, end thread
void CSmartTimerDlg::OnClear()
{
     running = FALSE;
}


Norbert

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