Using BeginThread... How do I use EndThread? Do i need to?

We are using multiple threads in our company for the first time.  We understand them enough to be dangerous. Lol.  What I need to know is if I am calling BeginThread and it kicks off my variable procedure, without calling EndThread, am I opening myself up to memoryleaks, etc.???  I watch all the threads in the debugger and it creates the thread and then magically ends.  I believe it ends when the variable procedure ends.  If I do need to call EndThread, then where do I call it at?

Here is a snipet of code.....

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------- //
//      procedure : PingContinualEquipment
//         author : jjs
//           date : 04/01
//    description : Ping the equipment in the memtable every 10 seconds
//  modifications :
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------- //
procedure TfrmPingContinually.PingContinualEquipment(Sender: TObject; Handle: Integer;
  Interval: Cardinal; ElapsedTime: Integer);
begin
   PingThreadHandle := BeginThread(nil, 0, @PingEquipmentInList, nil, 0, PingThread);
end;

PingEquipmentInList is a variable procedure, which just pings some equipment, but does nothing to end the thread.  It also doesn?t touch any variables used by any other threads or procedures, so it is kinda isolated on its own island.  No need to resync.

Rick Whitaker
Iowa Glass Depot