Peter Osucha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a test example, I have an IO line that I want to 'blink' (turn on and > off for 250ms each). I figured I could easily do this with a separate > thread.
> a while loop that continuously blinks the IO line using > Sleep() statements - and one other property 'Stop' that can be set to > 'true' to get out of the loop. OK so far. > If I didn't want to set the 'IsBackgroud' property of the thread, I > figured I could just implement IDisposable in my class and set > Blinker.Stop=true in Dispose(). However, that didn't seem to work. That's because your thread isn't waiting for Blinker to finish. You could call .Join on the thread object (and live with a delay of up to 250ms), or alternatively, instead of using Thread.Sleep, use a ManualResetEvent. Signal the event for shutdown, and use the WaitOne with a 250ms timeout for your blinking pause. The return value of WaitOne will tell you whether the event was signalled or not; the thread should quit when WaitOne returns true. You should still call .Join on the thread, if you want to guarantee that the thread has finished before the application shuts down. -- Barry -- http://barrkel.blogspot.com/ =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
