create a handler like sample code final Handler mHandler = new Handler(); Runnable MyActivity= new Runnable() { public void run() { startMyActivity(); } };
in your thread use mHandler.post(MyActivity); and in startMyActivity() {} UI changes or new Activity loading etc... you can do the work as your wish ------------------ it's necessary to stop the progress On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Rohit <mord...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What do you mean by "use handler to start the activity". could you > give me some example code? > > rohit > > On Feb 24, 1:21 am, Rohit <mord...@gmail.com> wrote: > > well y is an instance of of my class and foo() is defined by me so I > > start an activity, however, the caller (from the thread.run()) method > > is not something that I do. I just noticed someone calling it like > > that (from the Thread.run() method) and it was not working, hence my > > question...Is the problem that it is being called from a thread or > > that there is a progree dialog being showed? or neither? > > > > Rohit > > > > On Feb 23, 8:06 pm, dillirao malipeddi <dillir...@arijasoft.com> > > wrote: > > > > > you must stop the progress by dialog by dismissdialog() and > > > > > from your thread you must use handler to start an activity > > > > > the right way to start any UI tasks in the thread is by using handlers > > > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Rohit <mord...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > There is an activity that shows a progress dialog and starts a new > > > > thread to do some work. One method that is called from this thread > > > > starts a new activity. > > > > > > i.e. ThreadX has a run() method that calls y.foo(). y.foo() starts a > > > > new activity with teh flag Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK > > > > > > When I run this - I see the progress dialog but I dont see the new > > > > activity starting up from within the thread. All the context > > > > information is present to the thread. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Rohit > > > > > -- > > > Dilli Rao. M > > > ARIJASOFT > > > +91 - 9703073540 > > > -- Dilli Rao. M ARIJASOFT +91 - 9703073540 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---