Re: Threads and notification when finished

Raising events from the thread would be a typical way. Another would be
through a callback.

-Chris

"Tobias Matzat" <tobiasmatzat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:43592cdc$0$12674$9b4e6d93@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi!
>
> I am writing an application that should fetch some data in the background.
> Each file should be downloaded in a thread. Afterwards I would like to
> display the results in a document in the mobile internet explorer. Well,
> async callback couldn't be used in the cf 2.0. How could it be made
> possible that each thread notices the main thread when his task is done?
> Events? I mean diplay a wait cursor and wait until all threads have
> finished. It depends on your internet connection how long a download
> lasts. Therefore I cannot simply put the main thread to sleep.
> But when there are more threads downloading files? Can I get information
> about all running threads? I mean, is a special thread running or not.
> Could that be made with cf 2.0?
>
> THX!
>
> Tobias


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