Question

Sorry about the vague description, i didn’t know how to explain it.

I’m creating a thread within my Android/Java app, the code is simple enough but it keeps giving off a strange error?

final Thread buttonPress = new Thread(){ //X
    try {
        findViewById(R.id.button1).setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.button1_down);
        wait(500);
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        findViewById(R.id.button1).setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.button1);
    }
}; //XX

Besides where i marked /X i get the error message

“Multiple markers at this line
– Syntax error, insert “}” to complete ClassBody
– Syntax error, insert “;” to complete LocalVariableDeclarationStatement”

And at the end of thread, besides the “//XX” i get the error message,

“Syntax error on token “}”, delete this token”

Answer 1

You want something like

new Thread() {
    public void run() {
        // your try-catch-finally block goes here
    }
}

i.e. your missing a method declaration in your anonymous Thread class.