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[Guest]

When I sync threads and wating for a thread to finish (like dialing to modem)
then my user interface is stuck. What can i do to release it?

 

[Armin Zingler]

When I sync threads and wating for a thread to finish (like dialing
to modem) then my user interface is stuck. What can i do to release
it?

Release which one? Maybe specifiying the timeout when calling Join (do you
call Join?) is sufficient. I wonder why you wait because the other thread is
there not to have a locked user interface. You could wait on another thread,
but I don't think this makes sense. Depends on what you wanna do. In other
words, how do you expect the program to behave?


Armin

 

[Guest]

You can't block your UI main thread or you user interface will be
non-responsive. Instead you should have your secondary thread notify your
main thread using Control.Invoke method.