Question

Ok guys, here’s what I’ve got: I’m trying to make a thread-based program in Processing.
What the program does is really simple, and I can deal with that, but when I tried to make it run in a thread, it takes fun of me!

Long story short, I’ve tried making something like this:

class supportClass{
   [All the junk.];
};
class threadClass extends Thread{
   boolean goingThread;
   [Some other junk.];
   threadClass(){
      goingThread = false;
      [Junk.]
   }
   void start(supportClass var){
      goingThread = true;
      run(var);
      goingThread = false;
   }
   void run(supportClass var){
      [Junk which does all the work!]
   }
};

And here’s the setup() method:

void setup(){
   [Some junk init.];
   supportClass mySupportClass = new supportClass();
   threadClass myClass = new threadClass();
   myClass.start(mySupportClass);
}

So, here’s the issues are two:

1) The frame doesn’t even show itself; I mean: the program seems to not run at all…;

2) I’m not sure of the value-giving method that I’m using, because of the changing of data on mySupportClass.

Searching in StackOverflow I didn’t find anything about parsing values at a thread [In processing], so… Here I am!

Any tip?

Answer 1

@Override the superclass run() method to add your thread code. If you want to have your very own start() method with parameters, fine, but do not call run(), call start().