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Threading basics problem

 
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Hi!

Below i've tried to create a basic java audio player- When the user selects an audio file by clicking the button that file begins to play. But then i realized that javazoom's play() method hangs the app while playing the file so i need to put that in a new thread. So i tried to implement Runnable like this: but that gives me the error: . What i need to do here?

 
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Kasun Liyanage wrote:What i need to do here?



Runnable is *not* a marker interface -- it has a method. If you declare that something implements Runnable, you will actually have to implement the method of the Runnable interface.

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As Sheriff Wong said, if your JavaMusicPlayerBasic class implements Runnable then it has to have a method called run(), which it does not.

But I don't think you should have your JavaMusicPlayerBasic class implementing Runnable. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think you want the whole dialog box running in a separate thread, you just want to play the mp3 in a separate thread so that your dialog box still responds to user input.

I would create a separate class that implements Runnable. Call it, for example, Mp3Player. Then in your jButton_browseActionPerformed() method, instead of creating an instance of Player, you would create an instance of Mp3Player and call its start() method. Calling start() creates a new thread and calls the run() method on that new thread. Move the creation of Player and the play() method from jButton_browseActionPerformed() to the run() method of Mp3Player so that the mp3 file is played on the new thread.
 
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Thanks guys! Tom, that was the type of explanation i needed, thanks. I'll give feedback after trying that.
 
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It's working! Thanks again, Tom.
 
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