[kamal1981]

Hi everybody,

I have a j2me midlet working fine on other devices like Nokia, Sony. But, when i run the same application I am getting the error message as "PushModalScreen called by a non-event thread".


1. What could be the reason?
2. Is there any special consideration that I need to take care when developing midlets for BlackBerry?

Thanks and Regards,
Kamal

[jfisher]

on a native blackberry application you'd use:

UiApplication.getUiApplication().invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
UiApplication.getUiApplication().pushScreen(new myPopup());
}
});

but i'm not sure how to do the same in a midlet, what's happening here is a background thread is attempting to push a screen from a thread other than the main event thread which handles the ui. as it's modal it's blocking which is why the blackberry os doesn't like it; a background thread blocking the ui thread. to get around this on a native app without using invokeLater we'd use Status.shopw("message"); instead of Dialog.inform("message"); or similar, again, not sure on how to do it in a midlet but hope this helps.

cheers,
jon

[kamal1981]

jfisher,

Thanks for your response.

Since, I m developing midlet, I would like to know if there is any work around for the same.

--
Kamal.

[CPO]

I take it that this is happening when displyaing an Alert? You should be able to use the callSerially() method of the MIDP Display class to run code on the event thread. This will require adding some code similar to jon's example - showing the Alert from within a Runnable object and passing an instance to Display.callSerially()

[kamal1981]

Hi CPO,

I will try and let you know the result

Thanks for your response.

Kamal.