msgbox in new thread?!?!

[persian_83]

is it possible to send paratmeters into a thread? i want to show a messagebox in another thread, and get the body of the messagebox from the oldthread , how can i do this?!

i dont want my program to stop while messagebox is shown, plz tell me how can i do it? if threading , how can i pass the body into the thread? or is there other ways


thanks,

[Pirate]

Play around with the example Edneeis posted here : http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ight=threading

[persian_83]

i didnt get much of the thread you linked me to, and ednees link had problems, i didnt see it, the question is can a thread access a public field of another thread?!

[hellswraith]

If all you are trying to prevent is your application stopping when you show a message box, then why don't you just build a small form that looks like a message box. Then you can just show it by calling the .Show() method and not the .ShowDialog() method. This will show the new form (your custom message box) and continue executing code.

[persian_83]

yeah , that would work for what i'm doing now, but i think i can use this thread thing later on allot, i mean its that hard to pass a parameter to a thread?

[Edneeis]

It isn' hard to pass parameters to a thread you just have to use a delegate. My site is down right now sort of (DNS hasn't switched yet) but I did post a Msgbox example at the bottom of that thread.

This is the equavilant link for now:
http://old.isharecode.com/Code/BeginInvoke.asp

[VBCrazyCoder]

If you start a thread by:

Dim myThread = New Thread(New ThreadStart(AddressOf MyMethod))
            myThread.Start()

Do you have to also stop it at some point?

myThread.Stop()

If so, then if I use a delegate, with BeginInvoke, will the thread stop on it's own??

[Pirate]

Originally posted by VBCrazyCoder
If you start a thread by:

Dim myThread = New Thread(New ThreadStart(AddressOf MyMethod))
            myThread.Start()

Do you have to also stop it at some point?

myThread.Stop()

If so, then if I use a delegate, with BeginInvoke, will the thread stop on it's own??

2-It's just a pointer to a method . When using BeginInvoke and you want to return a value , then use Callback EndInvoke , otherwise I don't think it's needed (it will stop on its own) .