thread completion notification

[Bernie Yaeger]

How can I know, inside an mdi app, that a particular thread is finished
processing? I can't, of course, check it with every form that may open
(there are more than 100) and the form that opened it did so in its closing
event, so it is no longer open.

Thanks for any help.

Bernie Yaeger

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

How can I know, inside an mdi app, that a particular thread is finished
processing? I can't, of course, check it with every form that may open
(there are more than 100) and the form that opened it did so in its closing
event, so it is no longer open.

You could create a class that starts the thread and has a method that is
invoked by the thread when it finishes. Then this class can raise an
event or provide a property that indicates that the thread is finished.

 

[Bernie Yaeger]

Tx Herfried - that will solve the problem.

Bernie

 

[David Williams , VB.NET MVP]

If you created the thread then do a JOIN on it prior to the form closing
(but after hiding the form). That will keep the form from being
collected and you will have a way to control it.

However, I think that Herfired's method is cleaner.

HTH
David

 

[Bernie Yaeger]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for your advice; Herfried's approach did work fine, so I did not test
yours, but tx again.

Bernie