Thread

[hajo]

I have a problem that I can't find a solution for, even though I have found a forumthread with the same problem, that solution didn't help me.

So here it is:

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Thread cListener = new Thread(this);
java.lang.Thread: is abstract; cannot be instantiated


I thought ok, let's check the lejos api and look up thread, it is an abstract class and has one abstract method run(). I'm using this method

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public void run()
{
   code....
}


and there are no underlying classes for Thread, and i have

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import java.lang.*;


even tried to specify with

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import java.lang.Thread


and still the same error message.

I only get this message when compiling with the lejos compiler, if I use netbeans it compiles fine. Please don't give me the tip of compiling with netbeans and send over the files afterwords .. I really want to know what causes this error.

Thank you in advance!

[hajo]

Never mind, got it working

[bbagnall]

How about letting everyone else know what to do if they have this problem?

[hajo]

Good point, sry for that.

Since Thread is abstract, i can't create a new thread by doing

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Thread thread = new Thread();


If I want a thread running, i can just create a class that extends thread and then use the name of the created object of that class "name".start(), and when the thread starts it calls a function public void run() that should be implemented by the user in the thread class