Very helpful, thank you! That is a good idea for the pre and post fix. I am a little confused then on how to implement my handler then. I want to receive the input and then display it right away. So is it because I have a constant stream of numbers coming in the CommThread doesn't ever stop its thread and can't send it to the UI handler? What is the best way to do that? Should I limit the stream of numbers that comes in (say for example when it sees the last value of the "^37$")? Or is there a better way to call the handler to display the number on the screen?
I suppose I am a little confused on what handlers actually do and how to use them...I am in the process of learning all of this. On Apr 23, 4:03 pm, spachner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > 1) "As your wrote "a bluetooth device that is sending the temperature > to the android phone in a constant _stream_", so not expect that the > characters are coming somehow synced. Depending on internal socket > stuff sometimes just a single char is received, sometimes more at > once. The receiver is responsible to collect the read chars and do the > sematic, i.e. the interpretation of the data by yourself. I would > recommend to pack the data at the sender with chars which allows the > receiver to pick the payload in between easily. E.g. when you want to > transport temperature values the payload in something out of these > chars "0123456789.". Then you could put a prefix (e.g. "^") and a > postfix (e.g. "$") which would result in "^38$". The delimiting > characters actually do not matter just use which is guaranteed not in > the payload. The receiver then just collects the strings received and > post process which is simply searching for the prefix and the postfix. > Wait until both are in the collected string, then remove them and the > chars in between is your payload, your temperature value. > > 2) Seems that the handler mHandler is one from the thread the read() > is done and not from thread the actvitiy runs in as you want. If so > the handleMessage() could only be executed when the thread is not > blocked anymore what happens when the while(true) loop is broken by > the exception. > > Hope I am right and it helps! > > regards > > spachner > > -- > 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 > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- 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
