[skynetchris]

Hi everyone.

I'm writing an application that will (hopefully =) read sms sent to a blackberry 8310 handset. Specifically I am reffering to blackberry system messages. For now, I'd be happy to recieve/read any messages. I have tried two approaches with neither seeming to work (no message displayed). I used the blackberry knowledge base article as reference and developers guide Receive an SMS message:


Communicator being the parent class the instantiated the thread.

updateLocationScreen simply does an EditField.insert(msg);

    
        //EXECUTED IN CONSTRUCTOR
        ListeningThread listen = new ListeningThread(this);
        listen.start();
        //END EXECUTED IN CONSTRUCTOR

        private static class ListeningThread extends Thread { 
        Communicator com;
        private boolean _stop = false;
        private MessageConnection _mc;
        public synchronized void stop() {
            _stop = true;
            try {
                _mc.close(); // Close the connection so the thread returns.
            } catch (IOException e) {
                System.err.println(e.toString());
            }
        }
        ListeningThread(Communicator comPass){
            com = comPass;
        }
         
        public void run() { 
        try {
            com.updateLocationScreen("\n\nListening for messages...\n");
            _mc = (MessageConnection)Connector.open("sms://");
            for(;;) {
                if ( _stop ) {
                    return;
                }
                Message m = _mc.receive();
                String address = m.getAddress();
                String msg = null;
                if ( m instanceof TextMessage ) {
                    TextMessage tm = (TextMessage) m;
                    msg = tm.getPayloadText();
                }
                com.updateLocationScreen("Message received: " + msg);
                com.updateLocationScreen("From: " + address);
                //System.exit(0);
            }
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println(e.toString()); 
        } 
        } 
    }

AND (the version I'd most prefer to work as its independant of type of message)

    
      //EXECUTED IN CONSTRUCTOR
      ListeningThread listen = new ListeningThread(this);
      listen.start();
     //END EXECUTED IN CONSTRUCTOR

    //New SMS handling class
    private static class ListeningThread extends Thread { 
        private boolean _stop = false; 
        private DatagramConnection _dc;
        Communicator com;
        ListeningThread(Communicator comPass){
            com = comPass;
        } 
        public synchronized void stop() { 
               _stop = true; 
               try { 
                       _dc.close(); // Close the connection so the thread returns. 
               } catch (IOException e) {
                       //System.err.println(e.toString()); 
               } 
        } 
    public void run() { 
       try {
            com.updateLocationScreen("\n\nListening for messages...\n"); 
            _dc = (DatagramConnection)Connector.open("sms://"); 
               for(;;) { 
                       if ( _stop ) {
                              return; 
                       } 
                      Datagram d = _dc.newDatagram(_dc.getMaximumLength()); 
                      _dc.receive(d);
                      String address = new
                      String(d.getAddress()); 
                      String msg = new String(d.getData()); 
                      com.updateLocationScreen("Message received: " + msg);
                      com.updateLocationScreen("From: " + address); 
                      //System.exit(0); 
               } 
          } catch (IOException e) {
                   //System.err.println(e.toString()); 
          } 
    } 
    }

Screen output never displays any recieved message data, it does display 'Listening for messages', as expected.

Any ideas?