From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2005-04-09T06:09:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Detecting thread exit immediately

Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > @irb.alive? (also annoying), or to have the thread itself notify
> > something when it dies (but I can't quite think of how to do it).)
> 
> In line with your last thought, what about writing something to a queue 
> from the irb thread and then periodically (using a chore) reading the 
> queue in the main thread?

That still won't give me instant feedback, will it? Why I'm so keen on
this is that I want the FXIrb panel to stop accepting keystrokes the
instant the IRB interpreter exits. Everything I've tried so far either
exits the program, or has a brief time where you can type into a
theoretically exited widget (mostly since I was focusing on
Thread#alive? based solutions). 

Is there any way I can have FXIrb pass in 'self' to the thread so that
it can call methods on it?

martin