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Handling hideNotify/showNotify

 
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This is the declaration for a game canvas:

What should I do when the (hide|show)Notify methods are called ?
My game loop currently is doing:-

One possible thing I could do is to stop this GameCanvas thread on reception of hideNotify() and restart the Thread on reception of showNotify().

Another option is to do nothing.

Ideas?
 
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Hi,
I think do nothing is the good option.. as you cannot stop or pause a gamecanvas thread in hidenotify and restart it in shownotify, can you??
I think AMS itself will pause your midlet.
 
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@Poonam,

Well I have a reference to the Thread instance. I can interrupt it & set
running to false; that would stop the GameCanvas thread. When I say the GameCanvas, I'm referring to an instance of MyGame; something I have control over.

Thanks

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