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How do I pause a thread indefinitely?

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How do I pause a thread indefinitely?

Aug 25th, 2008

How do I pause a thread indefinitely? im creating a game and i need a thread to be paused when the user pauses the game and the thread will resume when the user unpauses the game. =) im using thread.sleep right now but it requires an integer to determine how long it will pause, but since i dont know how long the user is gonna pause the game, i think that method wont do me any good.

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Re: How do I pause a thread indefinitely?

Aug 25th, 2008

this might be an option

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public static void pauze(){
     while(!isContinue()){
           //keep the duration small, so the game will be resumed shortly after 
          // the user presses resume
           sleep(500);
     }
}
 
public static boolean isContinue(){
boolean returnVal = false;
// this method checks in the rest of your code, whether or not your user pressed resume
//returnVal = ....
 
return returnVal;
}
public static void pauze(){
     while(!isContinue()){
           //keep the duration small, so the game will be resumed shortly after 
          // the user presses resume
           sleep(500);
     }
}

public static boolean isContinue(){
boolean returnVal = false;
// this method checks in the rest of your code, whether or not your user pressed resume
//returnVal = ....

return returnVal;
}

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Re: How do I pause a thread indefinitely?

Aug 25th, 2008

thanks =) ill give it a try

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Re: How do I pause a thread indefinitely?

Aug 25th, 2008

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Originally Posted by stultuske

this might be an option
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Java Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
public static void pauze(){
     while(!isContinue()){
           //keep the duration small, so the game will be resumed shortly after 
          // the user presses resume
           sleep(500);
     }
}
 
public static boolean isContinue(){
boolean returnVal = false;
// this method checks in the rest of your code, whether or not your user pressed resume
//returnVal = ....
 
return returnVal;
}
public static void pauze(){ while(!isContinue()){ //keep the duration small, so the game will be resumed shortly after // the user presses resume sleep(500); } } public static boolean isContinue(){ boolean returnVal = false; // this method checks in the rest of your code, whether or not your user pressed resume //returnVal = .... return returnVal; }

That's a very expensive method call. Your primary thread operation will have to wait for the calculation of isContinue() if you were to do it that way.

You may instead want to have a set method that sets the boolean expression in the loop to false so that the process can stop when it is desired for it to stop.