exiting a loop / loop and thread.

[adamzieba]

I am having a very strange problem. What I think is happening is that a buffer is filling up, because the phone cannot display the information fast enough and then my program becomes non responsive.

Here is the Interrupt function.
Basically what happens is you press "Start" and then the button alters state and turns into a "stop" button when you press stop the button reverts to a start button.

 public void commandAction(Command command, Displayable displayable) 
   {
              if(command == StartCommand)
       {
         MainForm.removeCommand(StartCommand);
         MainForm.addCommand(get_StopCommand());  
         run();
       }
       
       if(command == StopCommand)
       {
         MainForm.removeCommand(StopCommand);
         MainForm.addCommand(get_StartCommand());   
         stopServices();
       }
       
   }

here is a snippet of the code

 

    private void stopServices()
    {
        quit();   
    }
    
     public void run()
    {
      while(QUIT == false) {
            System.out.println("Recorder");
            try{
                    {   

                        System.out.println("pause1");
                        // Thread.sleep(1000);
                        System.out.println("pause2");
                        
                       
                    }
             
            } catch (Exception ex) {
                System.err.println("Error in recorder thread: " + ex.toString());
            }
        }
    }
    
      
    public void quit()
    {
        QUIT = true ;
    }

I originally had this running in a thread, but to try to find out what was going on, I simplified it a lot.

Is Thread.sleep() the best thing to do to get the thing to pause for an amount of time so that it prints out every second rather than continuously?

I will have 3 threads in the future. One to get GPS coords , one to calculate a route and one to give the user instructions.

[adamzieba]

The solution I came up with is to create a thread like this :

Thread thread = Thread(gg);

gg is a object which implements Runnable.

I then loop the run() method in the gg class. I also provide it with a quit() command as I did previously, bu tin the gg class itself. The while loop works in exactly the same way as in my question. QUIT is a boolean var which is set to false on the instantiation or init of an object.

run(){while(QUIT){/*do stuff*/}}

Any other threads started by this one also need to be killed by dropping down into them via the quit() method.

eg.

void quit(){gg.quit()}

then in gg there will be another thread which quits the lower thread
eg

void quit(){otherrunnable.quit(); QUIT = true;}

To make the thread start

thread.start()

To quit the thread, and thus stop everything looping.

gg.quit()