de.enough.polish.processing
Class ProcessingThread

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      de.enough.polish.processing.ProcessingThread

All Implemented Interfaces:

Runnable

public class ProcessingThread
extends Thread
implements Runnable

Implements a thread that is responsible for managing all Processing related activities and events. The thread automatically starts when there is at least one Processing object in the Processing objects list and automatically stops when the object list is empty.

Author:

Ovidiu Iliescu

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

Thread.State, Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

protected static Vector	events
protected static Vector	objects
protected static Thread	thread

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

ProcessingThread()

Method Summary

static void	addProcessingObject(ProcessingInterface object) Add a new Processing object to the internal Processing objects list.
static void	queueEvent(ProcessingEvent event) Queue an event
static void	removeProcessingObject(ProcessingInterface object) Remove a processing object from the internal list.
void	run() The actual code of the thread.
protected static void	startThread(Runnable object) Start a new thread

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

objects

protected static Vector objects

events

protected static Vector events

thread

protected static Thread thread

Constructor Detail

ProcessingThread

public ProcessingThread()

Method Detail

addProcessingObject

public static void addProcessingObject(ProcessingInterface object)

Add a new Processing object to the internal Processing objects list.

Parameters:

object -

queueEvent

public static void queueEvent(ProcessingEvent event)

Queue an event

Parameters:

event - the event to queue

removeProcessingObject

public static void removeProcessingObject(ProcessingInterface object)

Remove a processing object from the internal list.

Parameters:

object - the processing object to remove

startThread

protected static void startThread(Runnable object)

Start a new thread

Parameters:

object - the runnable object which should run in a new thread

run

public void run()

The actual code of the thread.

Specified by:

run in interface Runnable

Overrides:

run in class Thread