Thanks for replyin... I havn't declared the variable as volatile... I'll do that.. .
Also.. I'm worried whether the variable is returning the current state of the Activity rather than the thread. Thanks, Immanuel On Feb 22, 6:06 pm, David Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > Did you declare your variable as volatile ? this is needed for stuff that > can be accessed by several threads at the same time.(or you could use a > synchronized statement which is slower but is safer in the general case, but > probably equivalent if your variable is of primitive type *and* you're not > running on multi-core device). > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Immy <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am using this method to identify if a thread is running at any point > > of time, irrespective of whether the enclosing activity is running or > > not. > > > Is this the right way? > > > Please reply. > > > Java: > > > Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable(){ > > > public void run() > > { > > Looper.prepare(); > > > //DO SOME WORK > > > Looper.loop(); > > } > > }); > > isRunning = true; > > t.start(); > > > this.finish(); > > } > > > public void onStop() > > { > > super.onStop(); > > isRunning=false; > > } > > > public boolean CheckRunningSync() > > { > > boolean returner = true; > > > if(isRunning == false) > > returner = false; > > if(isRunning == true) > > returner = true; > > > return returner; > > } > > > isRunning is a boolean local variable. > > > Thanks, > > Immanuel > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
