From: Mike Houghton <mike_k_houghton@...>
Date: 2006-11-17T03:34:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading Question -- sorry

Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> [previous code snipped]
>> timer = Timer.new( 1,5){puts "x"}
>> timer.start
> 	<= the application finishes here
> 
> You have to call #join on your thread or the application finishes and 
> the
> thread is killed
> 
> Sylvain

Yes! Thanks, the light just went on...

class Timer

  def initialize( period, count, &action )

    @period = period
    @count  = count
    @action = action

  end #initialize

  def start

   @thr = Thread.new do
      @count.times do
        @action.call
        sleep(@period)
      end #do
    end #do


  end #start

  def join
    @thr.join
  end


end #class Timer

timer = Timer.new( 1,5){puts "x"}
timer.start
timer.join

Ideally what I'd now like to do is make the Timer class such that I 
don't need to have a public join method and the @thr.join is, somehow, 
called intrinsically.


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