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
> >
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