Ok, this might be the most difficult question until now from me (especially
since I can't seem to fully understand synchronization). I'm using a Task
class to run a background task asynchronously, so that the UI stays
responsive and my activityMeter keeps me informed about the progress of the
task. The problem now is, that somewhere I do this:
private Process process;
...
for loop {
process = new Process(...)
process.execute(new TaskAdapter<String>(tl));
other code...
}
the Process class extends the Task class. If my for loop gets called only
once everything works perfect. Otherwise, though, the code keeps running and
the process variable gets re-initialized with every loop until finally only
the last run of the loop makes the process run completely (with my UI acting
accordingly). What do I have to do to make the code stop after the
process.execute() line ? I already tried the wait and notify methods, but
they gave me errors until I used the synchronized keyword. Then, however,
the processes run correctly but my UI freezes (indefinitely).
I'm kind of stuck here... is using the Task class the right way to go or are
there better ways for running threads in the background keeping my UI nice
and healthy ?
Regards
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Mathias Versichele
Bio-ir milieutechnologie / Msc. geografie
Oudburgstraat 16
9240 Zele
0485/16.07.08
