From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-12-07T18:52:28+09:00
Subject: Re: how to trigger a thread by event

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Carlo E. Prelz <fluido@fluido.as> wrote:
>         Subject: how to trigger a thread by event
>         Date: Fri 07 Dec 12 06:05:43PM +0900
>
> Quoting XueBrian (brian.xue@hotmail.com):
>
>> Here my question is how can I defer the thread execution until
>> something happened, like an event?
>
> I am not sure I understand what you want to do. Threads can be stopped
> and restarted. If, from within the code of your thread, you call first
> thing
>
> Thread::stop
>
> then, whenever you need the execution to restart, you can call t.run
> from your main process. Look at the example that is returned to you by
> running.

I do not recommend doing that.  Generally one should rather use thread
synchronization primitives to control execution of threads.

Cheers

robert

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