Dave Korn wrote:
On 25 April 2007 15:20, Eric Lilja wrote:
When the user of the program connects to an irc server a thread is
spawned that handles communication with the irc server. Any messages are
displayed in an editbox. If a severe error occurs, an exception is
thrown. Will there be any problems if I catch these exceptions in the
main thread? The things is that the connection code may cause an
exception and I want to run that in the connection thread so the UI
doesn't freeze while it's waiting for an connection attempt to time-out
for instance.
How exactly do you propose to "throw an exception across threads" anyway?
You can't spawn a thread inside a try-catch block and expect that block to
apply to the new thread....
cheers,
DaveK
Right, I moved the connection code inside the thread func. There it
checks for exceptions made during the connection and ends the thread
(and displaying an error message) if one occurs. If one does not occur,
it starts handling messages till the connection is closed or an
exception occurs.
This seems to work without freezing.
- Eric
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