Threading Issue, not being interrupted

Question

Apparently I suck with threading. Take for example, this method.
public Thread process()
               return new Thread(){
          public void run()
               while(!Thread.interrupted())
                   try {
                         Thread.sleep(500);
                         display.asyncExec(new Runnable() {
                              public void run() { 
                                   pb.notifyListeners(SWT.Modify, new Event()); 
                    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                         try {
                              Thread.currentThread().join();
                         } catch (InterruptedException e1) {
                              // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                              e1.printStackTrace();
                         e.printStackTrace();
          }When I attempt to do process().start(); the thread will kick off, but when I do process().interrupt(); the thread doesn't stop. No matter what I do i can't seem to stop the thread.

Answer 1

I just noticed that I am attempting to interrupt a different thread than I started, because everytime I call the method it returns a different thread. Teaches me to copy and paste code...
Thread t = process();
t.start();
t.interrupt();Edited by: sarcasteak on Oct 15, 2009 1:36 PM