Re: Accessing a thread

From:
Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 23:53:30 +0100
Message-ID:
<5017106A.7030004@gmail.com>
On 30/07/2012 20:00, Eric Sosman wrote:

   To: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax
From: Eric Sosman<esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>

On 7/30/2012 5:54 AM, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:

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();
...}

__________

File2

public class LanSendThread extends Thread{
      public static Handler lanSendHandler;

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

             lanSendHandler = new Handler() {
//stuff}

___________

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.

--
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid

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Thanks. It's obvious now!

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Dirk

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