[android-developers] Ending a Thread Safely
I've found lots of great tutorial on starting a thread, however what's the best way to close a thread that's using a SurfaceView in a game loop and set a new view? Could you provide some sample code? -- 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
Re: [android-developers] Ending a Thread Safely
Hi Stuart,
Can you determine whether the life cycle of the thread is bound to
which? The SurfaceView or the Activity,
I think the common control should have a callback to let you know that
its life cycle is come to an end (onDestroyed or onSurfaceDestroyed),
you can try to join the Thread at that time, and make sure you have a
well control Thread( extends Thread and define some variable to control
the run()), stop it and join it will help you let the Thread end safely,
as it will have no call back to the object bind the thread when the
object is destroyed.
I cannot provide a sample code, but the concept should be:
SafeThread extends Thread {
boolean stop = false
run() {
while (!stop)
...
}
stop(){
stop = true;
}
}
and
onDestroyed() {
safeThread.stop();
safeThread.join();
}
BR,
Nam
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 09:33 -0700, Stuart wrote:
I've found lots of great tutorial on starting a thread, however what's
the best way to close a thread that's using a SurfaceView in a game
loop and set a new view? Could you provide some sample code?
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[android-developers] Ending a Thread Safely
Hi Stuart,
Can you determine whether the life cycle of the thread is bound to
which? The SurfaceView or the Activity,
I think the common control should have a callback to let you know that
its life cycle is come to an end (onDestroyed or onSurfaceDestroyed),
you can try to join the Thread at that time, and make sure you have a
well control Thread( extends Thread and define some variable to control
the run()), stop it and join it will help you let the Thread end safely,
as it will have no call back to the object bind the thread when the
object is destroyed.
I cannot provide a sample code, but the concept should be:
SafeThread extends Thread {
boolean stop = false
run() {
while (!stop)
...
}
stop(){
stop = true;
}
}
and
onDestroyed() {
safeThread.stop();
safeThread.join();
}
BR,
Nam
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