On Monday, 28 January 2013 at 10:18:27 UTC, Chris wrote:
I am sure this has been asked before, but I couldn't find a
solution or a hint via Google: I use a separate thread to play
a sound file. Everything works fine, except that I cannot tell
the thread to stop what it is doing. It refuses to receive
messages while it is doing what it's doing (even if I just run
a simple test function with a long for-loop to make sure it's
not a hardware issue). I should probably add that the thread is
started from within the main loop of a socket that waits for
input. If the input is "stop" it should tell the play-thread to
stop, but nothing happens.
I can imagine that the thread is no longer visible to the
main-thread, although I keep a reference to it. Any help or
hint will be appreciated.
There is no Thread.kill/stop method, if you are looking for it.
Your thread should run a loop to check for termination repeatedly.
while (this.running) {
// do another chunk of work
}
To terminate the thread, you need to toggle the running flag and
wait for it to end.
soundplayer.running = false;
If your "chunk of work" is blocked as it waits for IO or
something, that might take a long time.
