Accessing a thread

[Dirk Bruere at NeoPax]

File1

public class controller extends Activity {


/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);

final LanSendThread lanSendThread = new LanSendThread();
lanSendThread.start();
....}

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File2

public class LanSendThread extends Thread{
public static Handler lanSendHandler;

@Override
public void run(){
Looper.prepare();

lanSendHandler = new Handler() {
//stuff}

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How do I access the thread lanSendThread from another class in another file?

 

[Eric Sosman]

File1

public class controller extends Activity {


/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.main);

final LanSendThread lanSendThread = new LanSendThread();
lanSendThread.start();
...}

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File2

public class LanSendThread extends Thread{
public static Handler lanSendHandler;

@Override
public void run(){
Looper.prepare();

lanSendHandler = new Handler() {
//stuff}

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How do I access the thread lanSendThread from another class in another
file?

The same way you'd access it if it were an ArrayList or
a JButton or a File: You save the reference somewhere and dish
it out to interested parties. There must be two or three jillion
ways to do this; a few of them are

- Make `lanSendThread' a public member of the controller
class (poor choice of name, by the way). You may or may
not want to make that member `final'.

- Make `lanSendThread' a private member of the controller
class, and write a public getThread() method to return it.

- Stash the value of `lanSendThread' in a Map or other data
structure, and "publicize" the data structure and/or
accessors for it.

 

[Roedy Green]

How do I access the thread lanSendThread from another class in another file?

// execute InParallel.run()
// in parallel to this thread on a new thread.
Thread t = new Thread ( new InParallel() );

// Note we call t.start(), not t.run()
// t.run() would just call run in the ordinary way.

// Get reference to the thread running this
// code right now.
Thread runningNow = Thread.currentThread();

Keep in mind a thread is busy running its own code. Pretty well
anything you run on that thread is going to be highly disruptive.
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
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