I have some code that a) needs about 10..20 seconds to execute b) returns a value that is used for further processing c) is called by the user
Thus I created a structure like this:
ProgressDialog pd = new ProgressDialog(ctx);
pd.setCancelable(false);
pd.setCanceledOnTouchOutside(false);
pd.setTitle(ctx.getResources().getText(R.string.progress));
pd.setMessage(ctx.getResources().getText(R.string.wait_keygen));
pd.setIndeterminate(true);
returnValue=doSomeDifficultCalculationsHere();
pd.dismiss();
Now my problems is: the progress dialogue is not shown, it seems to be blocked by the blocking doSomeDifficultCalculationsHere()-function too.
When I place doSomeDifficultCalculationsHere() into an own thread and do a Thread.join() to wait for result of this function progress dialogue is also not shown because Thread.join() blocks.
When I put the ProgressDialog into the thread I get an exception.
So how else can I solve this problem and let the ProgressDialog be shown when I can't call doSomeDifficultCalculationsHere() really asynchronously because its result is needed for all following steps?
Thanks!
