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From: "Dirk Bruere at NeoPax" <dirk.bruere.at.neopax@1:261/38.remove-dpk-this>
Subject: Re: Accessing a thread
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  To: Eric Sosman
From: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere@gmail.com>

On 30/07/2012 20:00, Eric Sosman wrote:
>    To: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax
> From: Eric Sosman<esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>
>
> On 7/30/2012 5:54 AM, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>> File1
>>
>> public class controller extends Activity {
>>
>>
>>       /** Called when the activity is first created. */
>>       @Override
>>       public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
>>           super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
>>           setContentView(R.layout.main);
>>
>>           final LanSendThread lanSendThread = new LanSendThread();
>>           lanSendThread.start();
>> ...}
>>
>> __________
>>
>> File2
>>
>> public class LanSendThread extends Thread{
>>       public static Handler lanSendHandler;
>>
>>       @Override
>>       public void run(){
>>              Looper.prepare();
>>
>>              lanSendHandler = new Handler() {
>> //stuff}
>>
>> ___________
>>
>> How do I access the thread lanSendThread from another class in another
>> file?
>
>       The same way you'd access it if it were an ArrayList or
> a JButton or a File: You save the reference somewhere and dish it out to
> interested parties.  There must be two or three jillion ways to do this; a
few
> of them are
>
>       - Make `lanSendThread' a public member of the controller
>         class (poor choice of name, by the way).  You may or may
>         not want to make that member `final'.
>
>       - Make `lanSendThread' a private member of the controller
>         class, and write a public getThread() method to return it.
>
>       - Stash the value of `lanSendThread' in a Map or other data
>         structure, and "publicize" the data structure and/or
>         accessors for it.
>
> --
> Eric Sosman
> esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid
>
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Thanks. It's obvious now!

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Dirk

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