"Hello, I'm trying to do some work in a thread" For starters you're still in the UI thread, your application is not multi threaded, try using a real thread:
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/AsyncTask.html This will most likely guide you as to when you can update a progress dialog. On Apr 6, 2:45 pm, SD315 <sailer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, i'm trying to do some work in a thread while showing a progress > dialog until the work is done in the most simple possible way, so far > i got this: > > // "this" is the current activity > final ProgressDialog prgDialog = ProgressDialog.show(this, "", > "Working...", true, false); > > new Thread() { > public void run() > { > Util.DoSomeWork(); // a static method > prgDialog.dismiss(); > }}.start(); > > at least it work fine in the emulator, but i'm concerned about it's > correctness, specifically about calling prgDialog.dismiss(); (note > that the variable prgDialog is created in the main thread), is this > correct? > > bye -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
