Re: aborting a function

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From: Clayton Arends
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 16:22

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"JD" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Why not? You don't need a thread or a timer or a call stack -
> just an an abort flag and two static variables:

If the call to talk_to_hardware() doesn't return until after executing
(several miliseconds to several seconds later) then none of the button
clicks get processed until after ButtonClick() returns.  The only way to
avoid this scenario is by using a worker thread thus freeing up the main
application thread to perform the task of managing Windows messaging.

- Clayton

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