Hi Leah,
There are one or more Threads inside a DisplayImpl. You
should be able to stop them with a call to the destroy()
method of each DisplayImpl. Or just call System.exit(0).
Good luck,
Bill
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Leah Heiss wrote:
> Hello visad-list
>
> I have another question for you regarding offscreen image rendering.
>
> I've set a up a simple class to capture my images, but the process never
> completes -- my program never exits. It seems to me that there must be
> some thread buried deep inside VisAD that isn't finishing.
>
>
> Here's the general outline of my code:
>
> public class ImageMaker{
>
> public void main( String[] args ){
> captureImages();
> return;
> }
>
> private void captureImages(){
> // create DisplayImpl
> // add data to DisplayImpl
> // call thread to capture images
> Thread thread = new ImageCapturer( DisplayImpl disp );
> thread.start();
> System.out.println( "All Done!" );
> return;
> }
>
> class ImageCapturer extends Thread{
>
> // constructor
>
> // run
> public void run(){
> // get the image
> // write it to file
> System.out.println( "Thread Done!" );
> }
> }
> }
>
>
> I run the code with
> > java ImageMaker
> And see...
> All Done!
> Thread Done!
>
> But the prompt never comes back. What is still running that won't let my
> program exit?
>
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Leah
>
>
