How to kill a thread in delphi?

Question

In delphi, a method in TThread is terminate. It seems a subthread can not kill another thread by calling terminate or free. For example A(main form), B (a thread unit), C (a

Answer 1

Terminate does not kill a thread; it sets the Terminated property to inform the thread that it needs to terminate. It's the thread's responsibility to watch for Terminated and shut itself down gracefully.