/// <summary>
/// The application worker thread.
/// </summary>
private void AppThread()
{
// All NeonSwitch applications (except for the core service) need to wait for
// the core to be initialized before the application can be started. We're
// going to spin here until the core indicates that it's ready.
var warningTimer = new PolledTimer(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60));
if (!SwitchApp.IsCore)
{
while (true)
{
if (String.Compare(Switch.GetGlobal(SwitchGlobal.NeonSwitchReady), "true", true) == 0)
{
break;
}
if (warningTimer.HasFired)
{
warningTimer.Disable();
SysLog.LogWarning("NeonSwitch application [{0}] has waited [{1}] for the core NeonSwitch service to start.", SwitchApp.Name, warningTimer.Interval);
}
Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1));
}
}
// Continue performing wwitch initialization. We needed to wait until after
// the NeonSwitch core service started before calling this.
Switch.Initialize();
// Call the application entry point so it can initalize itself.
try
{
InMain = true;
Main();
InMain = false;
mainCalled = true;
}
catch (Exception e)
{
SysLog.LogException(e, "The NeonSwitch application's Main() method threw an exception.");
throw;
}
finally
{
InMain = false;
}
// NeonSwitch handles the event dispatching.
Switch.EventLoop();
}
