wxPython and threading issue

[Steve Holden]

Patrick Smith wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> <sjdevnull at yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1159499923.311082.63610 at h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> 
>>Patrick Smith wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>I'm hoping someone here will be able to help as I've been struggling
> 
> with
> 
>>>this problem for a few days now.
>>>
>>>I'm working on an application that is creating a ProgressDialog, and
> 
> then
> 
>>>creating a thread that runs a function from another module in the
> 
> program.
> 
>>>The problem is, when the cancel button on the ProgressDialog is pressed,
> 
> the
> 
>>>thread that was created continues to run.  How can I make it so that
> 
> when
> 
>>>the cancel button on the dialog is clicked, the spawned thread dies?
>>
>>Have the main thread set a flag telling the worker thread to exit, and
>>have the worker thread check that periodically when it knows it's in a
>>safe state to exit.
>>
> 
> 
> This would work, unfortunately, the thread that it spawns calls a function
> in a loop, that function has an incredibly long run-time, on the order of
> minutes (possibly hours depending on the input), and that function, its self
> is multithreaded.
> This means that the worker thread could only check the flag after each
> completion of this long-running function.
> 
> Given that this is the situation, is it possible to do what I mentioned
> above?  Or does the long running function prevent any nice way of doing
> this?
> 
> 
If the function is a black box then you are stymied, I suspect.

Had you considered using a sub-process instead of a thread to perform 
the lengthy computation?

regards
  Steve
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