[Lazarus] A few questions on threads

[Frank Church]

On 4 October 2011 10:37, Frank Church <vfclists at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> What is the purpose of the while not Terminated in a threads execute loop?
> If a thread is doing its own thing and knows when or not it has finished
> what is the purpose of the while not Terminated
>
> Is Terminated designed to be called by other procedures besides the thread
> itself? Can a thread be Terminated externally?
> This also seems to imply that if the code within the while not Terminated
> loop is a long running sequence a Termniate command will not be processed
> until control returns to the beginning of the loop
>
> Can a thread respond to a new Execute command while it already Executing?
> Do threads have ways of being interrogated about their state while
> Executing?
>
> Suspend and Resume have been deprecated, and I want to know how a thread
> can be suspended.
>
> If a thread is not set to FreeOnTerminate, can a thread suspend itself by
> using Terminate or some other custom function, doing some clean ups and
> waiting so it can be restarted by the Start procedure, by adding some custom
> fields to make it itself aware that it is an a paused state, so that when an
> Execute is sent it look up those fields, set Terminated to false and
> continue as though nothing has happened?
>
> --
> Frank Church
>
>

Do the Start and Resume methods automatically call the Execute method?



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