Ahh yes, I was confused there for a sec cause I had no way of figuring out whether the thread was started or not.
I think this should do the trick. Thanks again! On Feb 9, 6:51 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
