Lejos bumpercar bluetooth takeover

[Shadowstep]

Ok so what I want to do is make a robot that makes use of Behavior programming to constantly listen on usb for a connection, and when it finds a connection I want it to stop doing all other things and from then on listen for commands received by bluetooth. I supporse I have to create another class that will be another behavior. but I don't really know where to start from there on.

greets Pieter

[Vertelman]

I have a similar problem. I have now got the following behaviors:
- driveforward (importance 0)
- hitobject (importance 1)
- waitforconnection (importance 2)

The first two work completely and now I'm to the point that I want to let the robot constantly listen to a connection being made. I have the following code:

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public class WaitForConnection implements Behavior {

    private boolean suppressed = false;
    private BTConnection btc = null;

    public WaitForConnection(){
        btc = null;
    }
         
    public void suppress() {
        suppressed = true;
    }

    public boolean takeControl() {
        btc = Bluetooth.waitForConnection();
        return (btc != null);
    }

    public void action() {
        suppressed = false;
        LCD.clear();
        LCD.drawString("connected", 0, 0);
        LCD.refresh();

        DataInputStream dis = btc.openDataInputStream();
        DataOutputStream dos = btc.openDataOutputStream();
        LCD.drawString("opened", 0, 1);
        try {
            char n = dis.readChar();
            LCD.drawChar(n, 0, 2);
            if (n == 'H') {
                LCD.drawString("accepted", 0, 3);
                dos.writeChar('A');
                dos.flush();
                ShakeHands();
            }
            while (!suppressed && !takeControl()) {
                Thread.yield();
            }
            dos.writeChar('E');
            LCD.drawString("ended", 0, 5);
            dos.flush();
            dis.close();
            dos.close();
            LCD.clear();
            LCD.drawString("closing", 0, 0);
            LCD.refresh();
            btc.close();
            LCD.clear();
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            LCD.drawString(ioe.getMessage(), 0, 0);
        }

    }

    private static void ShakeHands() {
        LCD.clear();
        LCD.drawString("Shake hands", 0, 4);
        Sound.beepSequenceUp();
        //STUB
    }
}


If I run this, the robot doesn't do anything anymore and is only listening for a connection to be made. I suppose that the waitForConnection() method is always returning something that is not null, but what method or what instance variable can I use to check whether a connection is being made? I have checked the API's for Bluetooth, BTConnection and NXTConnection, but there are so many variables with minimum explanation that I don't see which one to use.

[gloomyandy]

waitForConnection does exactly hat it says it does, it WAITS for a connection so will not return until a connection is made to the NXT. If you want your robot to continue to do things while waiting fro the connection to be made you need to use another thread to run the connection code while allowing the main thread to run your other code....

[Vertelman]

sounds very easy, but I have no clue how to program that...
Any suggestions?
Or do you have an idea where I can find an example code on how to do that?

[skoehler]

Google for a tutorial for using Threads in Java.
leJOS supports the standard Java Threads (java.lang.Thread, java.lang.Runnable) and the standard Java mechanisms for synchronization (synchronized, wait/notify/notifyAll()).