On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:11 AM, andrei-dmitriev
<andrei-dmitr...@yandex.ru> wrote:
> why there is no a way to poll or peek the message from the event queue?
> I want it to implement the break for the routine running on the UI thread.
> private void longRoutine() {
> while (flag){
> if (queue.peekMessage() != null) {
> return;
> }
> <whatever the code is>
> }
> }
>
> Or am I missing something and actually a way exists?
It's called a "background thread". All the cool programmers use them.
Why do you think that you need longRoutine() to be on the main
application thread?
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