Thanks!
On May 21, 10:07 am, Streets Of Boston <[email protected]>
wrote:
> If i'm not mistaken, TimerTasks run on a thread encapsulated in a
> Timer object.
> Since you can't reliably call most (if not all) UI/View related
> methods from any other thread than the main gui-thread, you have to
> post back (using a handler) back to the main gui-thread.
>
> I've never tried this using TimerTask, but it may work :=) :
> - Create your TimerTask subclass that has access to Handler or to your
> View.
> - In the 'public void run' method, call post on this handler or view
> to do what you want.
>
> @Override
> protected void onCreate(Bundle b) {
> ...
> ...
> final Handler handler = new Handler();
> final Runnable doUpdateView = new Runnable() {
> public void run() {
> ... do something with your view ...
> }
> }
>
> TimerTask myTimerTask = new TimerTask() {
> public void run() {
> handler.post(doUpdateView);
> }
> }
>
> ...
> mTimer.scheduleAtFixedRate(myTimerTask, 0, 1000);
> ...
>
> }
>
> On May 21, 10:38 am, Mooncat <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Is it a no-no to try to update a View from a TimerTask? My initial
> > experiments indicate it doesn't work. Is there a way to make it work?- Hide
> > quoted text -
>
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