I don't know if this will help with your symptoms, but I'm just making
sure that the thread gets interrupted and the thread stops before the
surfaceDestroyed method returns.
If you interrupt a thread, the thread needs to expect the interrupt.
assuming that you are extending Thread (untested code)
public BallDropThread extends Thread{
//override run
public void run(){
while(!this.interrupted()){
//stuff to do
}
}
}
//then your surface destroy can look like this
public void surfaceDestroyed(SurfaceHolder holder) {
thread.interrupt(); //says that the thread should stop
try{
thread.join(); //make this thread wait for the other
thread to
finish before returning
}catch(InterruptedException ie){
//handle the case if the thread.join is interrupt
//don't know if this will ever happen, if it can...
throw a runtime
exception?, or reinterrupt?
Thread.currentThread().interrupt(); //reinterrupt
because thrown
exception cleared interrupt and hope it's handled elsewhere
}
}
hope it helps
-Jeff
On Apr 30, 3:39 pm, "Cameron.M.Johnson" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> The problem I am continuing to have is that SurfaceCreated gets called
> instead of onCreate when the app restarts. I was using the join()
> method which I thought terminates the thread but SurfaceCreated still
> gets called first.
>
> Is there a way to call onCreate from SurfaceCreated?
>
> Another solution I tried to just set the thread to a paused state (ie.
> setRunnable(false) ), and when the app restarts simply
> setRunnable(true) to run the thread again, but all I get is a black
> screen when I do this... All the settings, variables and graphics are
> loaded but nothing happens.
>
> On Apr 29, 10:51 pm, Anurag Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > You can use Interrupt to strop a thread.
>
> >http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/concurrency/interru...
>
> > - Anurag Singh
>
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Cameron.M.Johnson <
>
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