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Expand Up @@ -308,6 +308,12 @@ to force quit your program.

So whenever possible, sprinkle your long-running functions with `yield`.

```{note}
Starting with napari 0.6.5 workers get registered as a running task and a confirmation
dialog will be shown if they are still running when closing the napari GUI via
its close button.
```

## Full two-way communication

So far we've mostly been *receiving* results from the threaded function, but we
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