From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2008-08-25T22:13:15+09:00
Subject: Re: thread closing?

Tim Mcd wrote:
> @t1 = Thread.new do
>    b = false
>    until b == true
>       sleep 10
>       puts "you are getting cold!"
>    end
> end
> 
> So, that gets called when a play enters a 'cold' room. I want to set in
> the 'leave' event:
> 
> @t1.close
> 
> or something to that effect, but i get errors when trying to call
> @t1.exit... Any thoughts?

You can call @t1.raise or @t1.kill, however those methods are pretty 
scary.  I'd do something like polling:
b = false
@t1 = Thread.new { sleep 10 until b == true}
and set b to true elsewhere in the code.
-=R
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