Halt applet processes.

[barusk]

Small problem that is probably easy. If there is a process running in an applet which takes awhile to complete. is there a way i could halt the process, by clicking some gray space on my frame? is there anyway that this could be done. i've done some research on halting processes, but i haven't gotten any headway in this. if anyone could help please do.
thanks in advance.
Rusk

[OrangeDog]

A structure similar to this:

public class Job extends Thread {

    volatile boolean stopped = false;

    public void run() {
        for (int i; i<lim; i++) {
            if (stopped) break;
            // do stuff
        }
        // clean up
    }

}

Clicking the button can then set stopped to true, allowing controlled termination of the process. If the computation you are doing cannot be characterised by some kind of loop then you just have to check it periodically. This is the simplest way of doing it, there are many ways to make it better, using different kinds of synchronisation and access patterns. If you want to return intermediate values, then use a SwingWorker.