Tim Jones wrote: > On Apr 1, 2008, at 6:05 AM, Amit Finkler wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Following a previous post of mine (http://mail.python.org/pipermail/ >> tkinter-discuss/2008-March/001320.html), I finally managed to start >> a new thread using the thread module. This new thread is started by >> clicking on a button on my Tkinter GUI and it just continuously >> plots a graph using matplotlib. >> >> Now, however, a new problem arises - how does one close the >> thread??? The function this thread starts has a Ctrl-C Exception >> which works fine if the thread module is not used. Now, however, >> pressing Ctrl-C does nothing. The thread has a life of its own!!! >> >> Your help will be greatly appreciated. >> > > The simplest solution is to set a global flag "QuitThread" and set it > to False while running. Then, allow the user to click a button and > then set the value to True. In the thread, check the value of the > variable and exit if it's True. > > HTH, > Tim > Thanks for the tip. It seems like a reasonable solution. One question remains: after I set the flag to be true, how do I exit the thread? I tried to check whether the flag is true and then execute thread.exit(). Nothing happened, though. The graph continued on plotting and obviously the thread kept on running.
Thanks, Amit.
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