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It seems to be a problem of the IDE. When I run my software outside of 
the IDE there is no problem. The TThread won't be killed and it works 
the way it is supposed to. How is that possible???

  -Tassilo
> Hi Gambit,
> 
> Thanks for trying to help.
> 
> 
> Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:
> 
>> "Tassilo J. Klein" <nospamTJKlein@web.de> wrote in message
>> news:dctdlr$6gr$02$1@news.t-online.com...
>>
>>
>>> Invocation of CloseHandle function out of any reason then calls the
>>> destructor of the calling TThread ~DownloadThread()
>>
>>
>>
>> The only way that could be happening is if CloseHandle() is throwing an
>> exception that is terminating the thread, and if you have the thread 
>> set to
>> FreeOnTerminate=true (or external code that is 'delete'ing the thread 
>> after
>> a call to WaitFor()).
>>
>>
> 
> Yes, is FreeOnTerminate = true;
> 
> 
>>> although CloseHandle is encapsulated by try/catch blocks.
>>
>>
>>
>> That does not necessarily mean that the try..catch will actually catch an
>> exception.  It depends on what your catch block is actually looking 
>> for, and
>> what kind of exception, if any, is actualy being thrown.  What does the
>> actual code look like?
> 
> 
> Here is a part of the code of the TThread. But everything critical is 
> encapsulated with try and catch(...). I don't understand it....
> 
> void __fastcall DownloadThread::Execute()
> {
> 
>     while( Terminated == false)
>     {
> 
>         try
>         {    // opening the port to the device
> 
>         if ( device->startDevice() != DEVICE_OK )
>                         throw(TRANSFER_ERROR);
> 
>         // download data from the device
> 
>         if ( device->downloadSpectrum() != DEVICE_OK)
>                         throw(TRANSFER_ERROR);
>        
>         .....
>     }
>     catch(...)
>     {
>         ...
>         // close the port
>         device->stopDevice();
>         ...
>     }
>     WaitForSingleObject(event, wait );
> }
> 
> // stop the device, close the port
> virtual void TMDU::stopDevice()
>     {
>         closePort();
>         monitor->Release();
>     };
> 
> 
> void TMDU::closePort()
> {
>     //closing the COM port
>     try
>     {
>     // write a byte to the device to finish communication
>     exitPort();
> 
>     flushPort();
> 
>      if ( hCom > 0 )
>     {
>      // clear data in the puffer
>       PurgeComm(hCom, PURGE_TXABORT | PURGE_RXABORT );
> 
>       // free the handle
>      CloseHandle( hCom ); }              <-------- from here the 
> debugger steps to the destructor of the download thread
> 
>     hCom = NULL;
>     }
>     }
>     catch(...)
>     {
>      .....
>     }
> }
> 
> 
> Any clue?
> 
> Regards,
>  -Tassilo
> 
>>
>>
>> Gambit
>>
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