“pushModalScreen called by a non-event thread” thrown on event thread

Question

I am trying to get my Blackberry application to display a custom modal dialog, and have the opening thread wait until the user closes the dialog screen.

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Answer 1

Building on Max Gontar's observation that the Exception is not thrown when using invokeLater instead of invokeAndWait, the full solution is to implement invokeAndWait correctly out of invokeLater and Java's synchronization methods:

public static void invokeAndWait(final Application application,
    final Runnable runnable)
{
    final Object syncEvent = new Object();
    synchronized(syncEvent)
    {
        application.invokeLater(new Runnable()
        {

            public void run()
            {   
                runnable.run();
                synchronized(syncEvent)
                {
                    syncEvent.notify();
                }
            }
        });
        try
        {
            syncEvent.wait();
        }
        catch (InterruptedException e)
        {
            // This should not happen
            throw new RuntimeException(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

Unfortunately, the invokeAndWait method cannot be overridden, so care must be used to call this static version instead.

Answer 2

Use this:

UiApplication.getUiApplication().invokeAndWait(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        pushScreen(new MyScreen());
    }
});

Answer 3

Seems as though there's a bunch of code in there that's unnecessary.

public class Application extends UiApplication {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        new Application().enterEventDispatcher();
    }

private Application()
{
    final Screen dialog = new FullScreen();
    final ButtonField closeButton = new ButtonField("Close Dialog");
    closeButton.setChangeListener(new FieldChangeListener()
    {
        public void fieldChanged(Field field, int context)
        {
            Application.getUiApplication().popScreen(dialog);
        }
    });
    dialog.add(closeButton); 

    // this call will block the current event thread
    pushModalScreen(dialog);

    System.exit(0);
   }
}