Re: [vdr] Centralized 'thread active' handling

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:

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it would somewhat reduce my confusion when switching from the elegance of delphi/lazarus to the awkwardness of C++ ;-)

Why use an extra negation here? I think a positive check ('Active()') is more straightforward than a negative one ('!Terminated()').

It mostly depends on habit. The native delphi class for threads (and the corresponding one in freepascal), TThread, just uses Terminate instead of Cancel, and the corresponding property is Terminated, so I'm just used to wrap a thread in a "while not terminated".

Just wondering: what does this have to do with "elegance" vs. "awkwardness"?

Nothing, it was a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Bye