Putting function references in a Queue

[Richard Townsend]

On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 23:46:22 GMT, Bryan Olson wrote:

> I think that's a good thing to do. The tricky part is getting an
> event loop to wait on both the queue and other kinds of events.
> Periodic polling works, but kind of sucks.
> 
> What's the 'done' argument? A lock maybe?

'done' is just a boolean for the child thread to indicate it has finished.
The main thread keeps a dictionary of references to the child threads so
the app can send then 'abort' messages via their input Queues. When a child
thread sets 'done' to True, the main thread deletes its reference from the
dictionary.

Periodic polling triggered by a timer in the X-app main loop was the only
way I could think of checking for feedback from the child threads, not very
neat though...

Thanks to everyone for their input!

-- 
Richard