Re: how to end a thread from the main thread

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Joseph M. Newcomer wrote: 
The trick goes like this...

Suppose for this example I have a boolean, ThreadRunning, on behalf of a view.  Also a
boolean called closing.  Both are initialized to false, and ThreadRunning is set to TRUE
when the thread starts

void CMyView::OnClose()
{
if(ThreadRunning)
{
... initiate thread shutdown
closing = TRUE;
} CView::OnClose();
}


LRESULT CMyView::OnThreadFinished(WPARAM, LPARAM)
   {
     ThreadRunning = FALSE;
      if(closing)
         PostMessage(WM_CLOSE);
      return 0;
    }


Don't you need a variable isClosed and set it true as the last thing the thread does so the application can wait for it (while(!isClosed)Sleep(10);) to be closed before exiting?
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