Oh I missed that you are writing your own special Thread. You probably shouldn't use Thread unless you know how to do regular Java synchronization, which is what you need to do here.
The framework has a HandlerThread class that does all of this for you. On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:30 PM, JS <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dianne, > > But how do I get the handle? > > My handle is created in run(). From the main thread of control, how > do I know > when run() finished creating my handle? > > Thanks > > On Feb 9, 6:18 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > > You don't need to know, as long as you can get the Handler you can post > > messages to it and the thread will process them in order once it is > running. > > > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:35 PM, JS <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I need a message queue in my background thread, so I created a looper > > > thread. > > > > > // Example 1: > > > class LooperThread extends Thread { > > > public Handler mHandler; > > > > > public void run() { > > > Looper.prepare(); > > > > > mHandler = new Handler() { > > > public void handleMessage(Message msg) { > > > // process incoming messages here > > > } > > > }; > > > > > Looper.loop(); > > > } > > > } > > > > > In my main (UI) thread I do: > > > > > LooperThread workerThread = new LooperThread() > > > workerThread.start() // starts initializing the thread > > > > > Now the question is how to communicate with it? I can have an > > > accesser getHandle() that returns my handle so I can send messages to > > > it. > > > > > The issue is that I have no idea when workerThread.start() has > > > finishing run() on the thread (and thus initialized the Handler) so I > > > have no deterministic way of sending/posting to it just yet. > > > > > Another words, I don't know when Looper.loop() starts running... > > > > > My goal is to enqueue a message into its MessageQueue immediately > > > after Handle is created so it can start handling them. > > > > > What's the correct pattern here? > > > > > Thanks > > > > -- > > 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. All such questions should be posted on public > > forums, where I and others can see and answer them. > > > -- 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. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
