[Chicken-users] Still having problems with threading

[William Ramsay]

Hi again,

Well, I thought threading was working, but I'm only part of the way there.

Basically, what I want to do is interrupt the thread with a key 
stroke.   While the thread is doing it's thing - let's say printing a 
count to standard out - I want to be able to hit a key and stop it.   I 
guess the problem I'm having trouble understanding is how I switch 
between the  primordial thread (t0) and the one I've started (t1).   If 
t1 is in a loop that that checks if it should keep going (i.e. the count 
example in SRFI-18) how do I insert into that loop a check for what t0 
is doing - or better, how do I allow t0 to do anything?    It's one 
thing to say add to counterA and then add to counterB, one of which is 
in thread  0 and the other of which is in t1.   It's another thing to 
pick up an interrupt (i.e. a key stroke) that may come at any time.

I may be in over my head, but isn't this sort of thing done all the time?

Bill