This is one way of doing it (as long as simHandler was created on UI thread).
However, this is too much work. Just call simHandler.postDelayed on the simHandler itself; no need to create a separate thread: See documentation here: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Handler.html#postDelayed(java.lang.Runnable, long) On Monday, February 4, 2013 11:59:10 AM UTC-5, dashman wrote: > > I'd like to send messages to the main UI thread every second. > > This is what I did. > > When I need to start to send messages - I create a Thread > from the Activity instance. this is what the thread run() method looks > like: > > public void run() > { > try > { > while ( !this.isInterrupted() ) > { > android.os.Message msg = android.os.Message.obtain( > simHandler, 0, simulator ); > > simHandler.sendMessage(msg); > > this.sleep( 1000 ); > } > } > catch ( Exception e ) > { > } > } > > > then i send a message to a handler - because I want to do the > work in the UI thread. > > right way? > > > > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
