Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Roedy Green" Subject: Re: Accessing a thread Message-ID: <50182C82.55850.calajapr@time.synchro.net> X-Comment-To: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer In-Reply-To: <50181D60.55729.calajapr@time.synchro.net> References: <50181D60.55729.calajapr@time.synchro.net> X-FTN-AREA: COMP.LANG.JAVA.PROGRAMMER X-FTN-MSGID: 1:261/38 c539b02c X-FTN-REPLY: 1:261/38 6844ffa5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98] Lines: 43 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 20:07:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.21.70.65 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1343765227 69.21.70.65 (Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:07:07 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:07:07 CDT Organization: tds.net Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:16882 To: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax From: "Roedy Green" To: Dirk Bruere at NeoPax From: Roedy Green On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:54:25 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >How do I access the thread lanSendThread from another class in another file? // execute InParallel.run() // in parallel to this thread on a new thread. Thread t = new Thread ( new InParallel() ); // Note we call t.start(), not t.run() // t.run() would just call run in the ordinary way. // Get reference to the thread running this // code right now. Thread runningNow = Thread.currentThread(); Keep in mind a thread is busy running its own code. Pretty well anything you run on that thread is going to be highly disruptive. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. ~ Dr. Albert A. Bartlett (born: 1923-03-21 age: 89) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY -+- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1 + Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38) -+- Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24 --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1 * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38) --- Synchronet 3.16a-Win32 NewsLink 1.98 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24