🚀 go-pugleaf

    Thanks but that won't work because now the main code is sitting there
waiting for the thread to finish rather than carry on with it's own work.
Under Windows, I could have the thread throw a message out which would get
caught by the main program's message handler.  I don't see how to emulate
this.

Sean

----- Original Message -----
From: Yonatan Taub <yonatanta@bashan.co.il>
Newsgroups: borland.public.jbuilder.java.language
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: Fun with threads


> class DoSomeWorkThread extends Thread {
>
>     Object lock;
>
>     public DoSomeWorkThread(Object lock) { this.lock = lock; }
>     public void run() {
>         // simulate some lenghy calculations.
>         System.out.println("in worker thread - about to do some lengthy
> operation.");
>         try { sleep(4000); }
>         catch(Exception x) {}
>         System.out.println("Finished processing and about to notify main
> thread.");
>         synchronized(lock) {
>             lock.notify();
>         }
>     }
> } // end class DoSomeWork
>
> public class MainWait {
>
>     public static Object lock = new Object();
>
>     public static void main(String[] args) {
>         Thread t = new DoSomeWorkThread(lock);
>         t.start();
>         synchronized(lock) {
>             try {
>                 System.out.println("main thread is about to wait.");
>                 lock.wait();
>             } catch(InterruptedException x) {}
>         }
>         System.out.println("Main thread has been notified and can do some
> finishing stuff.");
>     }
> } // end class MainWait
>
>
>