[Mono-bugs] [Bug 634711] New: Updating the UI from a thread not working

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=634711

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           Summary: Updating the UI from a thread not working
    Classification: Mono
           Product: MonoDroid
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Major
          Priority: P5 - None
         Component: Runtime
        AssignedTo: mono-bugs at lists.ximian.com
        ReportedBy: dan.ardelean at neologics.eu
         QAContact: mono-bugs at lists.ximian.com
          Found By: ---
           Blocker: ---


Description of Problem:
I've tried several ways of updating the UI from a thread but none of them work.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. I have a simple application with a textview as contentview and a menu item
When I press the menu I execute:
   (new System.Threading.Thread(tst.DoWork)).Start(); 
where tst is an object created inside OnCreate()

the tst object has an Android.OS.Handler member and a TextView initialized in
the constructor

2. Inside the DoWork method I have 
     handler.Post(new UpdateUI(tv, "Work started"));
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
            handler.Post(new UpdateUI(tv, "Work completed"));

where 
 public class UpdateUI : Java.Lang.Thread
    {
        TextView tv;
        string upd;
        public UpdateUI(TextView tv, string text)
        {
            this.tv = tv;
            this.upd = text;
        }
        public override void Run()
        {
            tv.Text = tv.Text + "\r\n" + upd;
            tv.Invalidate();

        }
}

I've chosen Java.Lang.Thread because it's derived from IRunnable and there is
no Runnable class.

Maybe this is not the right way to update the UI but nothing that I've tried
works.

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