Why, yes. The blog post is good. But it inspires me to wonder: what is Guy's native language? I ask because he gave a classic learner's mistake confusing the gerund with the participle.
I refer to: "Since everything happens on a single thread performing long operations, like network access or database queries, on this thread will block the whole user interface." As it stands, 'performing' must be a participle, which leaves "like network access or database queries" dangling without a role in the sentence. But with moving just one comma (and adding the clarifying parentheses), it now parses correctly as a gerund, to read: "Since everything happens on a single thread, performing long operations (like network access or database queries) on this thread will block the whole user interface." I am sure many readers of this forum will find that version of the sentence much more memorable as well as easier to follow. On Nov 11, 10:36 am, Lance Nanek <[email protected]> wrote: > The painless threading blog post here mentions a lot of nice > ways:http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/05/painless-threading.html > > On Nov 9, 12:12 pm, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, I'm new to Android (but not Java), so bear with me. > > > I'm trying to create a stopwatch-type UI, where a digital timer is > > displayed and incrementing every second. I started off creating > > atextviewand attempted to update thistextview(TextView.setText()) > > using either the TimerTask class to update the view in a timer as well > > as updating the view in the same thread, using a Thread.sleep(1000). > > > In either case, the view does not get updated. Obviously this doesn't > > seem to be the proper way to go about updating a text view. Any > > suggestions on the proper way to notify thetextview? > > > Thanks > > Chris -- 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
