Call Overload Version of Thread's run method

[Lennie De Villiers]

Hi,

The Thread class expect a run() method (no arguments), but how can I let it call a overload method? like run(MyClassName aClass)

Regards,

Lennie

[Minhaj Mehmood]

well you can create your own overloaded method.

public void run(String str){}

but how you will tell to thread.start() to execute my own overloaded run method??
by default thread.start() will execute no-arg run() method!

[rushikesh sawant]

you have to call overloaded run method on that particular object. it can be done in run() method which the thread recognizes.

 public void run(){
object.run(arg);
}  

[Minhaj Mehmood]

yeah you are right rushikesh sawant. now it will become any normal void method

[Ulf Dittmer]

Something like this may do what you want:

private class MyThread implements Runnable {

    private String data;

    public MyThread (String param) {
        data = param;
    }

    public void run() {
        // do something with the value of "data" here ...
    }
}

...

Runnable run = new MyThread("that's some data");
run.start();