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Subject: RE: Throwing c++ exception across threads
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:32:15 +0100
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On 25 April 2007 15:20, Eric Lilja wrote:

> When the user of the program connects to an irc server a thread is
> spawned that handles communication with the irc server. Any messages are
> displayed in an editbox. If a severe error occurs, an exception is
> thrown. Will there be any problems if I catch these exceptions in the
> main thread? The things is that the connection code may cause an
> exception and I want to run that in the connection thread so the UI
> doesn't freeze while it's waiting for an connection attempt to time-out
> for instance.

  How exactly do you propose to "throw an exception across threads" anyway?
You can't spawn a thread inside a try-catch block and expect that block to
apply to the new thread....

    cheers,
      DaveK
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