That did indeed do the trick!
All the best,
Steve
On Jun 11, 2:01 pm, Satya Komatineni <satya.komatin...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> May be this will work:
>
> MyService extends IntentService
> {
> Handler mMainThreadHandler = null;
> onCreate() {
> super.onCreate();
> //initialize and populate the mMainThreadHandler
> //because this method runs on the main thread
> //unlike the deriver handle...method
> }
> onHandleIntent() {
> //this runs on its own thread
> //do your work
> //post a message to mMainThreadHandler
> }
> ....
> //in that handle of the mMainThreadHandler
> {
> show the toast as this runs on the main thread now
> }
>
> }
>
> I am a bit guessing here.
>
> Satya
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Dianne Hackborn <hack...@android.com> wrote:
> > Oh for doing it from the callback from IntentService, you need to do it from
> > a thread that is actually running a responsive looper (which by definition
> > IntentService does not, since the thread it is calling you on is there to
> > run long-running operations).
> > So schedule a message in a Handler of the main thread, and show it there.
> > Basically the same as any time you want to touch other parts of your UI.
>
> > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Flying Coder <av8r.st...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Hi Mark,
> >> Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately, SystemClock.sleep()
> >> doesn't do the trick. :-(
>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Steve
>
> >> On Jun 11, 1:22 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> >> > Flying Coder wrote:
> >> > > So, I have an IntentService that handles button callbacks from a
> >> > > widget. When the user presses a certain button, I want to display a
> >> > > Toast. I return from onHandleIntent almost immediately after doing
> >> > > Toast.show(), which in turn stops the service and kills its thread,
> >> > > which keeps the Toast from actually being displayed.
>
> >> > That's interesting. I've never tried that pattern. I'm a bit surprised
> >> > that the Toast doesn't fire.
>
> >> > > Can anyone suggest an easy way to get the Toast (or something similar)
> >> > > to display from an IntentService?
>
> >> > Have you tried SystemClock.sleep()? It's a serious kludge, but I don't
> >> > know what else you can do.
>
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