C# Threading Problem (GUI???)

Question

I am in a rush to finish a home automation program. Basically we have a data management class that keeps track of all our devices and future events to be handled. We have a C# GUI running but we wish to run the future event function as a thread running in the background triggering events when they are to be triggered. We are having a great deal of problems trying to do this. If anyone can help us share the same class (HomeController) with both the GUI thats maintaining the program and a thread that is running the event handler it would be a GREAT help... my email is eduardo.p.borjas@csun.edu or eddie_borjas@yahoo.com

spgilmore · Answer

You'll have to tell us what the problems are. This can be done any number of ways. I usually recommend that the thread class create an isntances of the objects that it will use and that it expose properties to access that object from the outside world (in your case the GUI). If that's too much refactoring you can still just have the GUI pass a reference of the homcontroller object to the thread class so that the thread class can manipulate it properly.