Correct this is async. I certainly hope we will never ever allow for nested
event loops.
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Craig <supkic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I suspect this is not possible, but maybe there is a suggested
> solution...
>
> I want to call an aidl method on a service (the TTS service), from my
> service. I want to lazy load TTS only when I need it. e.g.
>
> class MyService extends Service {
> private void generateAudioFromText(String text) {
> TTS tts = new TTS(...);
> ...
> //wait for TTS service to start up
> ...
> tts.synthesizeToFile(text, ...);
> }
>
> The problem is that this function is called on the main thread, and
> the TTS constructor requires waiting for the TTS service to startup,
> which also returns on the main thread. Thus there seems to be no way
> to wait in that function without deadlocking the app.
>
> Other frameworks allow you to check the message queue yourself while
> waiting, but Android doesn't appear to allow this. e.g. I want to do
> something like:
>
> while(true) {
> Looper.getMainLooper().dispatchNextMessageInQueue()
> if(the TTS service has initalised ok, or timeout)
> break;
> }
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Craig
> >
>
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