Because you're not truly creating a thread unless you call Thread.start
(). Thread.run() will just do the runnable part in your current
thread, which is, with certainty, not what you intended to do :)
On Jun 3, 6:50 pm, pawpaw17 <georgefraz...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have code in my activity's onCreate that sets an onItemClick
> listener.
> when it fires I try to show a ProgressDialog that will be up until a
> subsequent
> thread "Thread" does it's processing. Strangely to me, the progress
> dialog
> never shows until *after* the thread.run() processing is complete.
> Almost like it's
> blocking. Am I doing something wrong? this is true even if the run
> method of doCurrentLocation
> doesn't do anything.
>
> Thanks for any ideas!! pawpaw17
>
> @Override
> public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
> super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
> ...
> optionsList.setOnItemClickListener(new OnItemClickListener(){
>
> public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> arg0, View arg1, int arg2,
> long arg3) {
>
> pd = ProgressDialog.show(myContext, getString
> (R.string.app_name), getString(R.string.thousands), true,
> false);
> Thread thread = new Thread(null, doGetCurrentLocation,
> "Background");
> thread.run();
> };
> });
> ...
>
> };
>
>
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