Awesome, that's it!! Thanks a million.
On Jun 3, 6:53 pm, Robert Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> Because you're not truly creating a thread unless you call Thread.start
> (). Thread.run() will just do the runnable part in your current
> thread, which is, with certainty, not what you intended to do :)
>
> On Jun 3, 6:50 pm, pawpaw17 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have code in my activity's onCreate that sets an onItemClick
> > listener.
> > when it fires I try to show a ProgressDialog that will be up until a
> > subsequent
> > thread "Thread" does it's processing. Strangely to me, the progress
> > dialog
> > never shows until *after* the thread.run() processing is complete.
> > Almost like it's
> > blocking. Am I doing something wrong? this is true even if the run
> > method of doCurrentLocation
> > doesn't do anything.
>
> > Thanks for any ideas!! pawpaw17
>
> > @Override
> > public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
> > super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
> > ...
> > optionsList.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener(){
>
> > public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2,
> > long arg3) {
>
> > pd = ProgressDialog.show(myContext, getString
> > (R.string.app_name), getString(R.string.thousands), true,
> > false);
> > Thread thread = new Thread(null, doGetCurrentLocation,
> > "Background");
> > thread.run();
> > };
> > });
> > ...
>
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>
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