Re: How to distinguish between two running threads
I think, this is the best solution. But you could do something like
that to just to simply distinguish between Threads, too ...
public class ThreadTest implements Runnable{
Thread t1;
Thread t2;
void go(){
t1 = new Thread(this);
t2 = new Thread(this);
t1.start();
t2.start();
}
public void run() {
if(Thread.currentThread()==t1){
// ...
}else{
//...
}
}
}
But as I said before,I think Wesley`s way is the better one
wesley.hall@gmail.com schrieb:
Angus wrote:
Hello
I have an applet and I want to create two threads - one to handle inbound
network io and the other outbound.
So I do this:
public class MyExample extends Applet implements ActionListener,
ItemListener, Runnable
Thread nwioIn; // Inbound network handler thread
Thread nwioOut; // Outbound network handler thread
and this:
nwioIn = new Thread(this);
nwioIn.start();
mwioOut = new Thread(this);
nwioOut.start();
Then I have a Run function
But I can have only one Run function? So in my Run function I kick off a
Inbound network io thread and then a outbound network io thread. do I just
use eg a static bool eg first and if first = true then do In then when false
do outbound? Would that work?
Angus
Hi Angus,
Here is what you should do...
public class IOThingy
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
new Thread(new OutputHandler()).start();
new Thread(new InputHandler()).start();
}
private class OutputHandler implements Runnable
{
public void run()
{
//Do output work
}
}
private class InputHandler implements Runnable
{
public void run()
{
//Do input work
}
}
}
Using inner classes like this allows you to have two different run
method implementations. You will need to adapt this example for your
applet.
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