I will try that. thank you Mike
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:24 PM, HeHe <[email protected]> wrote: > your closing statement "...i can stick into a handler ( using a > handler since the thread cant touch the > UI itself ) that brings that activity, tab to the front or selected." > seems to me the answer. > > that is, put a handler in the "realizing" activity to periodically > realize something has happened. then call TabHost.setCurrentTab() to > automatize tab switching. (prepare to handle onPause and onResume) > > i feel it should work. > > > On Sep 8, 4:52 pm, Mike Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > No i haven't answered it at all. the question is how when a thread in one > > activity realizes something has happened, make the application swith to > that > > tab, as if the users had placed their finger on that tab. but i want it > > automatic. I do not know how to do this. I do not have an answer to this. > I > > have searched for how to do it. > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:30 PM, HeHe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > why googling? you seemed to have answered to your own question, didn't > > > you? > > > > > On Sep 8, 1:19 pm, Mike Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I sent this yesterday but it must have got lost in moderation, as > i've > > > > scanned the posts carefully and not seen my post, so resending. > > > > > > I've been googleing this but no luck so far. I have a tabbedactivity > with > > > > three tabs. each tab represents an activity, and they are nested > classes > > > of > > > > the main tabbed activity class. One of my activities has a thread > that > > > > runs and gets messages from the telnet thread via a queue. Without > going > > > > into that to much essentially the issue is sometimes the board > activity > > > > realizes a game has started and creates a new board, but the person > may > > > not > > > > be viewing the board tab, he may be in the console tab reading new > chat > > > > messages, and what I'm trying to do is switch him to the board tab > when a > > > > game starts. See he can send a request for a game and be waiting for > > > someone > > > > to respond, and be watching the new chat in the console view rather > than > > > > being in his board view, but ideally i want to switch him to the > board > > > > activity/tab on new game. > > > > > > Since the board tab has a thread running, maybe there is just a line > of > > > code > > > > i can stick into a handler ( using a handler since the thread cant > touch > > > the > > > > UI itself ) that brings that activity, tab to the front or selected. > > > > > > Mike > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Android Developers" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]><android-developers%2Bunsubs > [email protected]> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en

