[rnickel]

Hey all, here's what I'm doing

I have my UI, which starts 2 threads.

The first thread simply constantly incrememnts a number within the run command

Something like this:

    public void run()
    {
        numTimes = 0;
        quit = false;
        while (!quit)
        {
            if (numTimes == 1234567)
            {
                quit = true;
            }
            numTimes++;
            try
            {
                sleep(500);
            }
            catch(InterruptedException e) {}
        }
     }

My other thread is launched on a timer, and simply grabs that number. That's all I want to do.

So here is the timer

       
        Timer timer = new Timer();
        myTask thetask = new myTask(_gdt);
        timer.schedule(thetask, 5000, 10000);

(_gdt) is the threaded object with the constantly updating integer value.

here is the run command in the myTask object

        public void run()
        {
            UiApplication.getUiApplication().invokeAndWait(new Runnable()
            {
                public void run()
                {
                    Dialog.alert(Integer.toString(_gdt.getTimes()));
                }
            });
        }

Now this all compiles just fine, but it hangs the system when I try to launch the app.

Any ideas?

Thanks all!

[rnickel]

I think I've figured it out. I was calling Thread.run(), instead of Thread.start();

Gotta know that as soon as I ask for help I figure it out myself. SHEESH! haha

If anyone has any pointers on using threads, or any advice on working with them, I'm open to suggestion!

Thanks again all!

[newToThis]

if at other times you need a thread to run in background
and just call make the thread do a task at any given time,
you can try something like this

.........// declarations or whatever here....

public void run()
{
  while (true)
  {
    if (killThisThread)
    {
      return;
    }
    else if (!killThread && !executeTask)
    {
      try
      {
        sleep(100);
      }
      catch (InterruptedException ie)
      {}
    }
    else if (!killThread && executeTask)
    {
      doTheTask();

      // reset so thread waits until you 
      // need it to execute task once again
      executeTask = false; 
    }
  }
}

public void killThread()
{
  killThisThread = true;
}

public void timeToDoTask()
{
  executeTask = true;
}

[rnickel]

Thanks, I'll def. use that!