Help: Waiting for other thread to finish?
Help: Waiting for other thread to finish?
- Subject: Help: Waiting for other thread to finish?
- From: "Steven M.Palm" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2003 21:10:29 -0500
I know this is a very wrong thing to do, but I'm at a loss for any
other easy way to do this...
I'm working on an APE module to integrate with Mail.app specifically,
so that when a user manually checks for new mail, it will pop up a
window telling them if they had new mail or not.
So far so good, and I've been able to wedge into the spot when mail is
checked manually, either from the menu or toolbar, and at this point I
can force the activity viewer window to be present and have Mail.app do
it's normal mail check. I can also get Mail.app to display a dialog for
me with text of my choosing. As for finding if there is new mail, I can
get the list of open mail viewers, and from there get to the underlying
message list and see how many messages there are. I figure I can check
the before and after count of this.
The problem is, this mail check is obviously being done in a thread. I
have no way of knowing much at all about this thread... So my before
and after count are always the same, as the mail checking has not
happened yet.
Is there any way when I run this method to catch the thread it launches
and know when it finishes? {shudder}
Thanks for any advice,
Steve
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- Steven M. Palm
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- Attempts to make thine own star shine shall lead thee into darkness.
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