[Dan East]

Within my main thread I have a timer which fires multiple times per second, and invalidates the screen if there are active drawing jobs. I have a worker thread which spawns the drawing jobs at various times, then exits.

I want the worker thread to trigger an event in the main thread upon completion. Within Windows I would simply SendMessage something to my main thread's message handler, or I would have a loop in my main thread which checks for the desired event (WaitForSingleObject) while pumping messages to keep my UI alive (PeekMessage / DispatchMessage).

Obviously I can have my timer event check for something I set in my worker thread, but I don't want to go that route unless I have no other choice.

Is there a way to have the main thread wait for some event or other construct (mutex, etc) while still processing UI events? Or is there a way to trigger an event from a worker thread? I don't think invokeLater will work, because that is just single threaded, and my worker thread won't run concurrent to my timer events.

Thanks!

[holy3daps]

Check out net.rim.device.api.system.GlobalEventListener and net.rim.device.api.system.Application. You can set an object to be your application's GlobalEventListener, and handle "eventOccurred" methods that get sent to it, even from within your application. Also check out net.rim.device.api.system.ApplicationManager for the ability to post Global events.

Cheers,

karl