Newb Q: Activity Constructor??

doubleslash · by **doubleslash** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:57 am

Hi
I have a task to be run on a secondary thread defined in the class Activity

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public Myapp extends Activity{
 
private count;
 
public Myapp(){}
 
public void task(){
 
//process count
 
}
 
}
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It is optimal to place the method task inside Myapp class because it utilizes a lot of the private variables defined there. The problem is I need to call it from another class extending View. As shown above, I created a Myapp constructor just so I can call task from MyView as shown below

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public void MyView extends SurfaceView implements SurfaceView.Callback{
 
public void surfaceCreated(){
 
new Myapp().task();
 
}
 
}
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This program doesn't work, and I don't know if it's because of my creating a constructor inside Activity. I've never seen this done anywhere, so I'm uncertain about it. Is this ok and the bug is something else?
Thanks for looking

MrSnowflake · by **MrSnowflake** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:32 am

In java, you can define fields (and members) as package (which means, leaving out private). This means, other classes in the same package have full access to fields (and members) of with the package modifier. That way, you can call hidden fields from your thread while it's in another class than the Activity itself.

doubleslash · by **doubleslash** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 4:23 am

That solved my problem. I have to crank out a project as quickly as possible, but when I'm done, I'll definitely study a java book cover to cover. Thanks so much.

Newb Q: Activity Constructor??

Newb Q: Activity Constructor??

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