Can i Kill Thread myself ?

xky said:

when I start a thread, if it take a long time to run, can I kill it myself?
For Exanple:

Thread1.start(me,"SubTest",array)
Thread1.sleep(5000) 'This may be something take a long time but I don't want wait

When Thread1 sleeping can I kill it ?
If I want the thread run 500ms, whether it ended or not, I want it be terminated, How can I ?
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xky said:

Thank you, I can use Interrupt, I do some complex calculate, and it need about 10sec but sometime the calculate can't have a resault, so it will go on for ever,then after 10 sec I want to kill it.
For example, I generate numbers randomizely, if I got number 10, the thread will end, but if in 10sec you don't get 10, the thread will go on until it got number 10... So I want to kill it.
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Informatix said:

The simplest thing to do is to create a timer that you enable when you start your computation thread. In the tick handler, you call Interrupt. In your computation thread, you check regularly IsInterrupted. If it's true, you exit.

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alan1968 said:

hello,
can you give a small example how to get out with a timer?
What should I put in the condition "if my_thread.isinterrupted then" for exit
thank you!

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Informatix said:

If you want to stop a background thread after a certain period of time, you can do it this way:
- you create a timer
- you enable the timer just before starting your thread
- you raise a flag when the timer ends (e.g. StopThread = True in the Tick event handler)
- in your thread, you check regularly the flag value
- if the flag is risen, you exit (e.g. if StopThread = True then Return)

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