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Postby Mrs Harris » Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:07 pm

Hey thanks for the quick reply... you've got some quick fingers!

I think perhaps I was not too clear... what I was trying to do was have the backgroundProc do some work which would come up with some values and the UI would then be updated to show these values.

As an example I would have an app that would retrieve some data from the web and then update the GUI... but this retrieve operation would not occur on the UI thread.

Hope this makes sense.

What I have now (with thanks to your code) is the following. This seems nicer I think.


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  1.         private Runnable doBackgroundProc = new Runnable(){
  2.                 private String strTest = null;
  3.                 public void run(){
  4.                         try{
  5.                     // Do some Fake-Work
  6.                     Thread.sleep(2000);
  7.                } catch (Exception e) {  }
  8.                 strTest = "foobar";
  9.                
  10.                 runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
  11.                                 @Override
  12.                                 public void run() {
  13.                                         TextView tvBal = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.txtTest);
  14.                                         tvBal.setText(strTest);
  15.                                         myProgressDialog.dismiss();
  16.                                 }      
  17.                 });
  18.                 }
  19.         };
  20.  
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Postby MrSnowflake » Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:42 pm

So this is what I understand you need: Say you want to download 10 images in the background from the web. And when each image is downloaded you want to display it? This can be done using the runOnUiThread. So one a image is completely downloaded, you post a runnable to Activity.runOnUiThread() which then adds the new image to the layout.
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Postby Mrs Harris » Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:18 pm

MrSnowflake wrote:So this is what I understand you need: Say you want to download 10 images in the background from the web. And when each image is downloaded you want to display it? This can be done using the runOnUiThread. So one a image is completely downloaded, you post a runnable to Activity.runOnUiThread() which then adds the new image to the layout.

Yes that would be a good example. Perhaps I should have thought more about my "query" than the example code I posted.
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setCancelable(true)

Postby sikus » Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:36 pm

Hi All,
I'm trying to cancel the progress. I'm useing myProgressDialog.setCancelable(true); but when I cancel ProgresDialog thread still run. OnKeyDown don't react for my press. How can I stop the thread?
Thanks for your recomend.
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Postby Alen » Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:34 pm

HI PlusMinus,

iam new here.
Just wonna say: Thank you very much for sharing this.
Helped me alot.

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Postby rahulp » Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:03 am

hi all... i am using following code...
new Thread() {
public void run() {
try{
// Do some Fake-Work


for (;;)
{
// System.out.println("sdgagasgfgasgasg");
// System.out.println("i am here");
if(msg_count==1)
{
System.out.println("new message");
//int k =show(msg1,reciever);
show(msg1, reciever);
msg_count=0;
}
else{
System.out.println("no new message");
}


sleep(3000);
} }catch (Exception e) { }
// Dismiss the Dialog

}
}.start();




but as soon as i call my show function which sets text in a text field. nothing happens and also the thread stops.
can anyone please help me
thanks
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Postby sikus » Thu Apr 09, 2009 10:18 am

Use
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  1. catch (Exception e) {
  2.  
  3.                                         e.printStackTrace();
  4.  
  5. }
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because you maybe have some error, but you can't see it. And use Log.w("",""); instead of System.out.println();
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Postby rahulp » Thu Apr 09, 2009 11:05 am

thanks freshman,
can u please tell me how to change a ui in a thread...
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Postby sikus » Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:34 am

I think that code below works.
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  1. new Thread() {
  2.  
  3.                         public void run() {
  4.  
  5. setContentView(R.layout.new_xml_layout_ui);
  6.  
  7. }.start();
  8.  
  9.  
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Postby rahulp » Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:02 am

hi
i have tried that code.. it doesn work
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Postby Untouchab1e » Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:27 am

Thanks for the great guide, however, I am having problems with actually doing some work while the progressbar is running... Here is my code:


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  1. public void onClick(View v) {
  2.  
  3.                                 // TODO Auto-generated method stub
  4.  
  5.                                
  6.  
  7.                                
  8.  
  9.                                 myProgressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(DidYouKnow.this,      
  10.  
  11.                         "Please wait...", "Loading fact...", true);
  12.  
  13.                
  14.  
  15.               new Thread() {
  16.  
  17.                    public void run() {
  18.  
  19.                         try{
  20.  
  21.                              // Fetch the fact
  22.  
  23.                                 fetchFact();
  24.  
  25.                         } catch (Exception e) {  }
  26.  
  27.                         // Dismiss the Dialog
  28.  
  29.                        
  30.  
  31.                         myProgressDialog.dismiss();
  32.  
  33.                    }
  34.  
  35.               }.start();
  36.  
  37.          }
  38.  
  39.    });
  40.  
  41.    
  42.  
  43.          
  44.  
  45.        
  46.  
  47.      }
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Problem is that fetchFact() downloads an xml file and updates a TextView with a text string. However, with the progressbar showing, it wont actually do anything. I think this is what you have been discussing above, but I would like some help with my specific case?

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Postby Untouchab1e » Tue Jun 02, 2009 8:29 am

Got it working!


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  1. public void onClick(View v) {
  2.  
  3.                                 // TODO Auto-generated method stub
  4.  
  5.                                
  6.  
  7.                                
  8.  
  9.                                 myProgressDialog = ProgressDialog.show(DidYouKnow.this,      
  10.  
  11.                         "Please wait...", "Loading fact...", true);
  12.  
  13.                
  14.  
  15.               new Thread() {
  16.  
  17.                    public void run() {
  18.  
  19.                         try{
  20.  
  21.                              
  22.  
  23.                                 Thread.sleep(2000);
  24.  
  25.                         } catch (Exception e) {  }
  26.  
  27.                        
  28.  
  29.                         runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
  30.  
  31.                             @Override
  32.  
  33.                             public void run() {
  34.  
  35.                                 // Fetch the fact
  36.  
  37.                                 fetchFact();
  38.  
  39.                             }
  40.  
  41.                             });
  42.  
  43.                         // Dismiss the Dialog
  44.  
  45.                        
  46.  
  47.                         myProgressDialog.dismiss();
  48.  
  49.                    }
  50.  
  51.               }.start();
  52.  
  53.          }
  54.  
  55.    });
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Postby Richa » Fri Jan 22, 2010 12:44 pm

hey thanks...
it really helped me in my application....
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RIGHT WAY

Postby ztrafe » Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:13 pm

This is the right way...

It´t just don´t display the dialog but alls let you perform some action.

http://thedevelopersinfo.wordpress.com/ ... n-android/
http://thedevelopersinfo.com/2009/10/19 ... n-android/
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Postby strider2023 » Sat Mar 06, 2010 9:00 am

I got the progress bar working...but i want to change the way it looks...can anybody help???
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