A Question About Threading...

[jmofthenorth]

Hi,

I'm relatively new to programming and I have a pretty basic question that needs answering. I have a windows form that has two buttons. When the user presses one button code executes in a long while loop. I would like to allow the user to exit the while loop by pressing the other button, however as I have it set up now, the code executing on the event of the first button press (aka the while loop) prevents the user from selecting the other button. Do I need to use threading to do that? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jesse

 

[jmeckley]

check out the backgroundworker object

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[gplusplus]

Yes you need to set up a thread. You can use the background worker, but my preference is using System.Threading.
Its farely simple to setup just make sure your function calls are thread safe, i.e. using BeginInvoke() and setting up delegate methods.