Hi,
No unfortunately that didn't work.
Thanks for the idea though. I think I'll use a notification instead (as it
appears I probably should be).
Cheers,
Julius.
On 2/03/2011, at 8:56 AM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
> Yes, that's pretty close to what I had in mind - assuming that the handler is
> created on the UI thread, such as inside the service's onCreate().
>
> And I would marshal the message string, not the Toast object, so you don't
> even have to instantiate Toast objects in the worker thread.
>
> But the $64,000 question remains - did it help?
>
> -- Kostya
>
> 01.03.2011 22:43, Julius Spencer пишет:
>> Hi Kostya,
>>
>> I'm not sure how to access the UI thread from within an IntentService. (If
>> in an Activity I would use runOnUiThread)
>>
>> So far I have:
>>
>> private void showToastOnUIThread(final Toast toast) {
>>
>> handler.post(new Runnable() {
>>
>> @Override
>> public void run() {
>> toast.show();
>> }
>> });
>> }
>>
>> The handler object is created in the IntentService. Thank you for the idea.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Julius.
>>
>> On 1/03/2011, at 10:13 PM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote:
>>
>>> Julius,
>>>
>>> You mentioned IntentService, which runs your code on a background thread.
>>>
>>> Even though Toast can supposedly be shown from any thread, I'd try changing
>>> the code so that you show the toast from the UI thread. That's easy to do
>>> with a Handler and a small Runnable subclass.
>>>
>>> -- Kostya
>>>
>>> 01.03.2011 10:06, Julius Spencer пишет:
>>>> Unfortunately that didn't work. In on Destroy() I put in:
>>>>
>>>> System.out.println("Duration: "+toastMessage.getDuration());
>>>> toastMessage.cancel();
>>>>
>>>> (where toastMessage was assigned any toastMessage I'd created and shown)
>>>>
>>>> and I got:
>>>> Duration: 0
>>>>
>>>> Not sure if that is of any use. I've never had any trouble with Toasts
>>>> (except not calling show() :) ). I'm a bit stumped.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Julius.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 1/03/2011, at 7:50 PM, Julius Spencer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Yeah it's definitely being hit just once (I put a break point in).
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll try out dismissing it if the IntentService is destroyed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the replies everyone.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Julius.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 1/03/2011, at 4:15 PM, TreKing wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Julius Spencer<[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> I'm sure it's just something I'm not thinking of but I'm stumped...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You're not calling it over and over again are you?
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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