From 091ea32cccdf409d1321d26c1960328c4c521eba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jwetzell <jwetzell@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 09:34:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Move updater to its own thread

---
 .../Classes/Communication/QUpdater.cs                 | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qController.Standard/Classes/Communication/QUpdater.cs b/qController.Standard/Classes/Communication/QUpdater.cs
index 3cda96a..7a59035 100644
--- a/qController.Standard/Classes/Communication/QUpdater.cs
+++ b/qController.Standard/Classes/Communication/QUpdater.cs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 using System;
+using System.Threading;
 using Xamarin.Forms;
 using SharpOSC;
 namespace qController
@@ -7,20 +8,25 @@ namespace qController
     {
         private bool active = true;
         private QController qController;
+        private Thread updateThread; 
         public QUpdater(QController controller)
         {
             qController = controller;
+            updateThread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(UpdateLoop));
         }
 
         public void Start(){
+            updateThread.Start();
+        }
+
+        public void UpdateLoop()
+        {
             active = true;
             Device.StartTimer(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0.01), () => {
-                //qController.sendCommandUDP("/selectedCues");
                 UpdateSelected();
                 UpdateLevels();
                 return active;
             });
-
         }
 
         public void UpdateSelected()
@@ -35,6 +41,7 @@ namespace qController
 
         public void Kill(){
             active = false;
+            updateThread.Abort();
         }
     }
 }