Thanks to Murphy M for the solution to my problem. It worked like a
charm.
On Jun 14, 12:10 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> Use runOnUiThread() around your code in the catch block, to have that
> stuff be done on the main application thread.
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> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Droid <rod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am spinning a thread to go online and get data. But if phone is in a
> > network hole (no signal) it throws an exception.
> > In the exception I try to call Toast or finish() the activity but both
> > those cause a crash.
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> > Here's the error and my code:
> > error is:
> > 06-14 11:32:01.691: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(7389):
> > java.lang.RuntimeException: Can't create handler inside thread that
> > has not called Looper.prepare()
>
> > here is the code, note the catch clause at the end which is where my
> > problem lies:
>
> > ***************************************************************************
> > ******************
> > private Thread checkUpdate = new Thread() {
> > public void run() {
> > try {
> > URL updateURL = new URL("http://search.twitter.com/
> > search.json?q="+string_from_speaker);
> > URLConnection conn = updateURL.openConnection();
> > ...
> > } catch (Exception e) {
> > // none of these exception handlers work becaue they are in wrong
> > thread!! WTF?
> > // NOPE tv1.setText(" having trouble getting online"); // TODO
> > // NOPE Toast.makeText(IconicAgain.this, "having trouble getting
> > online "+ e, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
> > }
> > }
> > };
> > ***************************************************************************
> > *****************
>
> > Can I at least stop this thread somehow? Or close the activity
> > somehow?
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