message-pump

I have a program that needs to sit in the background and when a user connects to a RDP session it will do some environment setup then launch a program. When the program is closed it will do some housekeeping and logoff the session. The current way I am doing it is I have the terminal server launch this application. This is built as a windows forms application to keep the console window from showing up: public static void Main() { //(Snip...) Do some setup work Process proc = new Process(); //(Snip...) Setup the process proc.Start(); proc.WaitForExit(); //(Snip...) Do some housecleaning

The usual VB way to handle a computationally heavy task is to put it in a background worker thread, while the main thread keeps handling the UI. Say for whatever reason I needed to do this the other way around: the main thread doing the grunt work and the background one updating the UI. Here's what I have so far. The only problem is, while the UI window (Form1) does get redrawn, you can't interact with it, not even move or resize it (the mouse cursor turns to hourglass and won't click). Public Class ProgressDisplay Private trd As Thread Public Sub New() trd = New Thread(AddressOf threadtask)

pythoncom.PumpMessages() From what I understand this line basically tells the program to wait forever. For my purposes it seems to be working. However, I'd like to be able to end the program given the right stimulus. How would one go about ending the above line, or stopping the program from running any further. According to these docs , pythoncom.PumpMessages() : Pumps all messages for the current thread until a WM_QUIT message. So one way to stop collecting messages is by posting a WM_QUIT message to the message queue by using the ctypes library to call PostQuitMessage : ctypes.windll.user32