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icon5.gif  how can i know if i'm running in a top level thread? [message #640186] Fri, 19 November 2010 14:12 Go to next message
elhanan Maayan is currently offline elhanan MaayanFriend
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i have a method which maybe called inside a the main thread or inside another one,

how do i know if i'm running in side the main thread? (it's using jacom, and i need to know if i should run in mta or sta)
Re: how can i know if i'm running in a top level thread? [message #640272 is a reply to message #640186] Fri, 19 November 2010 20:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jonah Bron is currently offline Jonah BronFriend
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I tested it. You can check with this:
if (Thread.currentThread().getName().equals("main")) {
    // do something
}

Strangely, == doesn't work, but .equals() does. == probably compares the object, not the contents of the string.

[Updated on: Fri, 19 November 2010 20:33]

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Re: how can i know if i'm running in a top level thread? [message #640323 is a reply to message #640272] Sat, 20 November 2010 15:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
elhanan Maayan is currently offline elhanan MaayanFriend
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really? tha sounds really faglie, i mean there's nothing to stop oracle from changing the name, between versions (hell they changed the jvm name, in jdk 6_21 and caused problems for eclipse)
Re: how can i know if i'm running in a top level thread? [message #640349 is a reply to message #640186] Sun, 21 November 2010 01:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jonah Bron is currently offline Jonah BronFriend
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Well, I suppose you could store the name of the thread in a global variable when the program first starts in main(), because you know for sure you're in the main thread then. Then you can compare to the stored value later.
Re: how can i know if i'm running in a top level thread? [message #640368 is a reply to message #640349] Sun, 21 November 2010 05:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
elhanan Maayan is currently offline elhanan MaayanFriend
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bu this is eclipse we are talking about, don't have access to main
Re: how can i know if i'm running in a top level thread? [message #640421 is a reply to message #640186] Sun, 21 November 2010 22:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Jonah Bron is currently offline Jonah BronFriend
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Oh, so this isn't just a Java application, this is some Eclipse thing? Then I don't know. Just use "main" and fix it when it breaks Smile (unless there's a better solution that I don't know of).
Re: how can i know if i'm running in a top level thread? [message #640431 is a reply to message #640186] Mon, 22 November 2010 04:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
elhanan Maayan is currently offline elhanan MaayanFriend
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if this thing breaks, there's a good chance it would take eclipse down with it. so i can't risk it:)
Re: how can i know if i'm running in a top level thread? [message #640765 is a reply to message #640186] Tue, 23 November 2010 05:16 Go to previous message
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Er, oh. Good point Rolling Eyes
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