Stopping a thread

[Arne]

Hi! I have some excisting functions from a library and want to run some of them in a single thread. My Problem is: How can i stop this threads. I cant use a variable to interrupt the while loop of the thread cause i cant edit this functions

[JosAH]

Hi! I have some excisting functions from a library and want to run some of them in a single thread. My Problem is: How can i stop this threads. I cant use a variable to interrupt the while loop of the thread cause i cant edit this functions

If you want to stop a Thread that other Thread has to cooperate in some way; if it doesn't, you're out of luck. The Thread.stop() method is deprecated for good reasons.

kind regards,

Jos

[Arne]

the thread which i want to stop doesnt interact with any other thread. it only calculates some values and returns them afterwards. can i use stop() then safely

[JosAH]

the thread which i want to stop doesnt interact with any other thread. it only calculates some values and returns them afterwards. can i use stop() then safely

Try it; I don't know; if that Thread uses resources somewhere if might not be safe. If it just uses some memory for its stack and objects it might work. Read what the API documentation has to say about that method ...

kind regards,

Jos

[j2me64]

i found a small example how to stop a thread. perhaps you can use it for your problem. here is the code:

class Thread1 extends Thread {
	public void run() {
		int i = 0;
		System.out.println("while-loop starting ...");
		while (!isInterrupted()) {
			System.out.println(i++);
			try {
				Thread.sleep(50);
			} catch (InterruptedException e) {
				System.out.println("interrupt received");
				interrupt();
			}
		}
		System.out.println("while-loop ended");
	}
}

public class MyThread {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
		Thread1 t = new Thread1();
		t.start();
		try {
			Thread.sleep(2000);
			System.out.println("call interrupt");
		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
		}
		t.interrupt();
		System.out.println("main ended");
		System.out.println("duration of all tasks in millis: " + (System.currentTimeMillis() - start));

	}
}

the thread is started inside the main function and also interrupted from the main function. in order to stop the thread you need this loop

while (!isInterrupted())

and inside the catch-block use the method interrupt() so that the boolean test in while becomes true and the thread ends. hope you understand the logic. good luck.

[Norm]

The OPs problem is:

I cant use a variable to interrupt the while loop of the thread cause i cant edit this functions

It appears that he doesn't have the source for the looping thread, so he can't change it as per all your recommendations

[j2me64]

It appears that he doesn't have the source for the looping thread, so he can't change it as per all your recommendations

oh, norm, for somebody who pretends to implement threads changing my code to fulfill the requirements should be an easy task: so declare a instance variable ex. stop in the class Thread1 with the value false, change the while to "while (!stop)". now from outside the class you can modify the stop instance variable to true and the thread will stop. if you need this code let me know.

[Arne]

i dont have the source code of any functions. they are from a library. i cant modify any while loop or implement stop variables.

But thx for your help

[DarrylBurke]

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[JosAH]

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ditto; the moron is all over the place at the moment (and has been here before).

kind regards,

Jos