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Thanks James

Good point
probably a good way to clean up the threads in the close program
sequence too. TobesureTobesureTobesure

Greg
James Rudnicki wrote in message <6elcmn$pqb6@forums.borland.com>...
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>Greg Dickson wrote in message <6ej7rq$nmb1@forums.borland.com>...
>>if I start a thread from a method with say
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>>private  void doCommand (String doThis) {
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>>RunCommand tc = new RunCommand(doThis);
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>>What happens if the method is called several times
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>Well, tc gets the new reference to the object each time the method is
>called, but I would worry about the garbage collector.  When you
create the
>new instance, the reference to the old instance becomes unused.  What
has a
>reference to the old and still executing thread? Nothing, so the
garbage
>collector might try to clean up thereby ruining the data members.
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>You may get lucky because an event listener could have a reference
and keep
>the instance alive, but...
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>Maybe keep all the references on a Stack or Vector.
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>bye
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