please stop using threads. pleas learn backgroundworker. or i will find you. I will cut you open. I will eat your innards. is that threat enough to make you write GOOD code? or are you forever doomed to bitch on lists like this because you have problems. the problems being shitty code and the solution being you STOP being a fucking programmer.
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Jonathan Pryor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 16, 2011, at 1:10 PM, emalamisura wrote: >> A common issue with maintaining state is handling Rotation with multiple >> threads in Android. For instance if you start a thread, and then rotate the >> phone before the thread is done with its work Android destroys the previous >> Activity and generates a new one. Any references you had to your previous >> activity will cause a reference exception. > > Right. Don't do that. :-) > > I'm also not sure what scenario you're thinking of. Activities are tied to > their Main thread -- it isn't safe to interact with them except via the main > thread or Activity.RunOnUiThread() -- and anything associated with the > Activity follows the same rules as well. This would include the > LastNonConfigurationInstance value, as used at: > > http://stackoverflow.com/a/8331994/83444 > > So the primary question is this: why are multiple threads using an Activity > instance? If it's to use Activity.RunOnUiThread(), use an alternative, such > as a Handler instance over the MainLooper: > > > http://support.xamarin.com/customer/portal/questions/34836-toast-in-service > >> This becomes even more difficult >> to handle in MonoDroid because alot of the semantics used in Java such as >> using an internal static class inside your activity can't easily be >> reproduced in C# > > I also don't understand this. Java's `static` nested classes are ~identical > to C# nested types; it's non-`static` nested classes which differ. > > Thanks, > - Jon > > _______________________________________________ > Monodroid mailing list > [email protected] > > UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid -- Extreme Knowledge is not something for which he programs a computer but for which his computer is programming him. -Wozniak _______________________________________________ Monodroid mailing list [email protected] UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid
