How to use threading to activate a sperate function without freezingthe current window

[Pubs]

I am learning C sharp. I want to call a function (any simple function.
E.g. : Never ending while loop or large For loop inside the function).
I want to call this function from the main application window. I found
couple of tutorials but for some reason window freezes.

THis is what I did,

Thread FirstThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Thr eadFunc));
FirstThread.Sta rt();
FirstThread.Joi n();

protected static void ThreadFunc()
{
for (Int64 i = 0; i < 10000000; i++)
{
// Do my job . . . . .
}
}

Can some one help me to resolve this problem. I am still a bigginner.

Pubudu

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Re: How to use threading to activate a sperate function without freezing the current window

Pubs <pubuducg@gmail .comwrote:

I am learning C sharp. I want to call a function (any simple function.
E.g. : Never ending while loop or large For loop inside the function).
I want to call this function from the main application window. I found
couple of tutorials but for some reason window freezes.
>
THis is what I did,
>
Thread FirstThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Thr eadFunc));
FirstThread.Sta rt();
FirstThread.Joi n();

When you call Join, that basically says "wait until the thread has
finished" - which completely negates the point of doing threading.

Just don't call Join and it should be fine.

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[Marc Gravell]

Re: How to use threading to activate a sperate function withoutfreezing the current window

You are calling Join, which by definition waits for the other thread
to exit. In short, don't call Join here - just start the other thread
and let it run. By the way, if the worker thread is touching the form
or any controls (such as setting text etc), you will need to use
Control.Invoke to switch back to the UI thread, due to thread
affinity.

Marc

[Pubs]

Re: How to use threading to activate a sperate function withoutfreezing the current window

On May 31, 11:40 am, Jon Skeet [C# MVP] <sk...@pobox.co mwrote:

Pubs <pubud...@gmail .comwrote:

I am learning C sharp. I want to call a function (any simple function.
E.g. : Never ending while loop or large For loop inside the function).
I want to call this function from the main application window. I found
couple of tutorials but for some reason window freezes.

>

THis is what I did,

>

Thread FirstThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(Thr eadFunc));
           FirstThread.Sta rt();
           FirstThread.Joi n();

>
When you call Join, that basically says "wait until the thread has
finished" - which completely negates the point of doing threading.
>
Just don't call Join and it should be fine.
>
--
Jon Skeet - <sk...@pobox.co m>
Web site:http://www.pobox.com/~skeet 
Blog:http://www.msmvps.com/jon.skeet
C# in Depth:http://csharpindepth.com

Jon Skeet

Thank you very much for the help. It works now.
How do I know once the function is completed, thread is terminated ?

Pubudu

[Pubs]

Re: How to use threading to activate a sperate function withoutfreezing the current window

On May 31, 11:43 am, Marc Gravell <marc.grav...@g mail.comwrote:

You are calling Join, which by definition waits for the other thread
to exit. In short, don't call Join here - just start the other thread
and let it run. By the way, if the worker thread is touching the form
or any controls (such as setting text etc), you will need to use
Control.Invoke to switch back to the UI thread, due to thread
affinity.
>
Marc

Marc,

Thank you very much Marc. It is working fine.

Pubudu

[Peter Duniho]

Re: How to use threading to activate a sperate function without freezing the current window

On Sat, 31 May 2008 09:51:15 -0700, Pubs <pubuducg@gmail .comwrote:

Thank you very much for the help. It works now.
How do I know once the function is completed, thread is terminated ?

One approach would be to have your thread call a specific method when it's
done. If you want the method to do something with the UI, you should do
as Marc suggests with that method, calling it with Control.Invoke( )
instead of calling it directly.

Pete

[Marc Gravell]

Re: How to use threading to activate a sperate function withoutfreezing the current window

To second Peter's answer: if the code in question is "close" to the
other code, then just call some method directly, usually via
Control.Invoke - i.e.

void WorkerMethod()
{ // runs on background thread
// ... some long code
this.Invoke((Me thodInvoker) LongOpFinished) ;
}
void LongOpFinished( )
{ // runs on UI thread when WorkerMethod is complete
}

If the code is more separated (such as library methods), then you
might use a "callback" - which at the simplest could be as simple as
passing a MethodInvoker (or Action, or ThreadStart, or whatever) into
the method as an argument, and then invoking it at the end. Callbacks
can also be implemented via events (and about 20 other ways) - or you
can just have the UI worry about it locally (i.e. the UI calls a local
method 9worker thread) that calls the library method (worker thread),
then calls another local method (UI thread).

Marc

[Pubs]

Re: How to use threading to activate a sperate function withoutfreezing the current window

On May 31, 4:26 pm, Marc Gravell <marc.grav...@g mail.comwrote:

To second Peter's answer: if the code in question is "close" to the
other code, then just call some method directly, usually via
Control.Invoke - i.e.
>
void WorkerMethod()
{ // runs on background thread
  // ... some long code
  this.Invoke((Me thodInvoker) LongOpFinished) ;}
>
void LongOpFinished( )
{ // runs on UI thread when WorkerMethod is complete
>
}
>
If the code is more separated (such as library methods), then you
might use a "callback" - which at the simplest could be as simple as
passing a MethodInvoker (or Action, or ThreadStart, or whatever) into
the method as an argument, and then invoking it at the end. Callbacks
can also be implemented via events (and about 20 other ways) - or you
can just have the UI worry about it locally (i.e. the UI calls a local
method 9worker thread) that calls the library method (worker thread),
then calls another local method (UI thread).
>
Marc

Marc,

Thank you very much. This helped me a lot.

Pubudu