Again, I found the solution before the post made it through moderation. Anyway, the workaround I found was to use a android.os.Handler and use the postDelayed() function within it. If anyone knows a better solution, please let me know.
On Sep 13, 3:54 pm, Felix Oghina <[email protected]> wrote: > My Activity fetches an XML from the Web, parses it and displays > information in a ListView. Everything was working fine until I decided > to do the XML fetching and parsing in a TimerTask, so that I could > show a "Loading..." message while that is happening. After lots of > debugging, I realized that the application hangs on > mListAdapter.add(mCurName), where mListAdapter is an > ArrayAdapter<CharSequence> and mCurName is a String. This instruction > worked before using a TimerTask, but now it just stops execution > without any exception or anything. I have tried creating the Timer > with both new Timer(true) and new Timer(false), but nothing seems to > work. > > Note: the mListAdapter.add(mCurName) call is actually made in a > function within my main Activity class, which, in turn, is called from > the run() function inside the TimerTask class that is defined within > my main Activity class. Just to make sure I made sense, here's a > sketch of my code: > > public class MyActivity extends Activity { > // vars... > protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { > // stuff... > Timer timer = new Timer(true); > SearchTask task = new SearchTask(); > timer.schedule(task, 1); > } > public void run() { > // stuff... > mResultList = parseResponseXml(responseXml); > // other stuff, but execution never reaches this point... > } > > public class XmlHandler extends DefaultHandler { > // vars... > public void startElement(...) {...} > public void characters(...) {...} > public void endElement(String uri, String name, String qName) > { > // stuff... > if (name == "resource") { > inResource = false; > if (inResults) { // this is where the problem > is > Log.i("TasteKidDebug", "Before > mListAdapter.add"); // this gets logged > mListAdapter.add(mCurName); > Log.i("TasteKidDebug", "After > mListAdapter.add"); // this doesn't > mResults.add(mCurName, mCurType); > } > } > // stuff.. > } > } > > public ResourceList parseResponseXml(String xml) throws Exception { > // stuff... > XmlHandler handler = new XmlHandler(); > xr.setContentHandler(handler); > xr.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml))); > return handler.mResults; > } > > } --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
