I had to delete the thread (setting it as null for the Garbage Collector) and create another, restarting it.
I am avoiding the Exception, but now my animation is not resuming. Hope this helps someone. Cass On May 24, 10:59 am, Cass Surek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have based my code upon the LunarLander example and added a > preferences Activity launched from a menu item. > > The preferences get loaded and displayed correctly, but when I press > the return button my app fails with an exception IllegaThreadState as > it tries to start the thread again from within the following method: > > /* > * Callback invoked when the Surface has been created and is ready > to be > * used. > */ > public void surfaceCreated(SurfaceHolder holder) { > // start the thread here so that we don't busy-wait in run() > // waiting for the surface to be created > thread.setRunning(true); > thread.start(); > > } > > I have tried to check if the thread is running with thread.isAlive() > ==false but it appears that when the activity loses focus the thread > returns false for that call. > > Any suggestions on what I could do to prevent such exception? I've > tried try/catch but I am unsure on what to call on the exception. > > Any help much appreciated, > > Cass Surek --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
