Thanks Satya, That did indeed do the trick! All the best, Steve
On Jun 11, 2:01 pm, Satya Komatineni <[email protected]> wrote: > May be this will work: > > MyService extends IntentService > { > Handler mMainThreadHandler = null; > onCreate() { > super.onCreate(); > //initialize and populate the mMainThreadHandler > //because this method runs on the main thread > //unlike the deriver handle...method > } > onHandleIntent() { > //this runs on its own thread > //do your work > //post a message to mMainThreadHandler > } > .... > //in that handle of the mMainThreadHandler > { > show the toast as this runs on the main thread now > } > > } > > I am a bit guessing here. > > Satya > > > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh for doing it from the callback from IntentService, you need to do it from > > a thread that is actually running a responsive looper (which by definition > > IntentService does not, since the thread it is calling you on is there to > > run long-running operations). > > So schedule a message in a Handler of the main thread, and show it there. > > Basically the same as any time you want to touch other parts of your UI. > > > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Flying Coder <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hi Mark, > >> Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately, SystemClock.sleep() > >> doesn't do the trick. :-( > > >> Cheers, > >> Steve > > >> On Jun 11, 1:22 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Flying Coder wrote: > >> > > So, I have an IntentService that handles button callbacks from a > >> > > widget. When the user presses a certain button, I want to display a > >> > > Toast. I return from onHandleIntent almost immediately after doing > >> > > Toast.show(), which in turn stops the service and kills its thread, > >> > > which keeps the Toast from actually being displayed. > > >> > That's interesting. I've never tried that pattern. I'm a bit surprised > >> > that the Toast doesn't fire. > > >> > > Can anyone suggest an easy way to get the Toast (or something similar) > >> > > to display from an IntentService? > > >> > Have you tried SystemClock.sleep()? It's a serious kludge, but I don't > >> > know what else you can do. > > >> > -- > >> > Mark Murphy (a Commons > >> > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > >> > Android Consulting:http://commonsware.com/consulting > > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en > > > -- > > Dianne Hackborn > > Android framework engineer > > [email protected] > > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > > answer them. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en
