Try not posting a runnable on the receiving thread if one is already queued?

Al wrote:
> Hi all,
> in my irc app, I'm trying to improve the responsiveness when it has to
> deal with a lot of data at a single time.
>
> At the moment, once the data is append()-ed to the textview, I post a
> delayed runnable (100ms delay) back to the UI thread to make it scroll
> right down to the bottom. Unfortunately, without the runnable being
> posted, it doesn't seem to be possible to correctly calculate the
> amount the ScrollView should scroll and often scrolls halfway only.
>
> This works fine for normal situations and the program is fully
> responsive. But when, there is a lot of channel activity, the queue of
> Runnables start to strain the UI thread and it has trouble appending
> the data as it arrives and occasionally causes an ANR.
>
> My question is, how would I get around this? Without the Runnable, it
> doesn't scroll correctly but with it, it causes problems. A possible
> solution could be to detect when there is an influx of data and post
> the Runnable less often, but I'm not sure how I would detect this.
>
> Any ideas welcomed.
> >   


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