Just curious if anyone has had any luck creating a separate activity in their Processing sketch. I'm trying to implement a library (the Nuance Speech SDK, in case you're curious) and it seems to require that their library be in an Activity. I've tried to implement it in a Thread and this didn't work (if anyone understands why this might be, I, Android newb, would love to hear more about it).

For reference, here's my Thread:

2. 
   
3. class LooperThread extends Thread {
4. 
   
5.   public Handler mHandler;
6.   public Recognizer _currentRecognizer;
7.   Recognizer.Listener _listener;
8. 
   
9.   public LooperThread() {
10.       super();
11.       _listener = createListener();
12.       Looper.prepare();
13.       //_listener = createListener();
14.       //_currentRecognizer = null;
15.       //_listeningDialog = null;
16.   }
17. 
    
18.   public void run(SpeechKit sk) 
19.   {
20.     println(" run ");
21.     mHandler = new Handler();
22.     
23.     _currentRecognizer = sk.createRecognizer(Recognizer.RecognizerType.Dictation, Recognizer.EndOfSpeechDetection.Short, "en_US", _listener, mHandler);
24.     _currentRecognizer.start();
25. 
    
26.     Looper.loop();
27.   }
28.   
29.   Recognizer.Listener createListener()
30.   {
31.     return new Recognizer.Listener()
32.     {            
33.       @Override
34.       public void onRecordingBegin(Recognizer recognizer) 
35.       {
36.         println("Recording...");  
37.         // Create a repeating task to update the audio level
38.         Runnable r = new Runnable()
39.         {
40.           public void run()
41.           {
42.             if (_currentRecognizer != null)
43.             {
44.               //_listeningDialog.setLevel(Float.toString(_currentRecognizer.getAudioLevel()));
45.               mHandler.postDelayed(this, 500);
46.             }
47.           }
48.         };
49.         r.run();
50.       }
51. 
    
52.       @Override
53.         public void onRecordingDone(Recognizer recognizer) 
54.       {
55.         println("Processing...");
56.       }
57. 
    
58.       @Override
59.         public void onError(Recognizer recognizer, SpeechError error) 
60.       {
61.         if (recognizer != _currentRecognizer) return;
62.         //if (_listeningDialog.isShowing()) dismissDialog(LISTENING_DIALOG);
63.         _currentRecognizer = null;
64.         //_listeningDialog.setRecording(false);
65. 
    
66.         // Display the error + suggestion in the edit box
67.         String detail = error.getErrorDetail();
68.         String suggestion = error.getSuggestion();
69.         int code = error.getErrorCode();
70. 
    
71.         if (suggestion == null) { 
72.           suggestion = "";
73.         }
74. 
    
75.         println(detail + " " + suggestion + " " + code);
76.         // for debugging purpose: printing out the speechkit session id
77.         println("Nuance SampleVoiceApp Recognizer.Listener.onError: session id [" + _speechKit.getSessionId() + "]");
78.         recognizer.stopRecording();
79.       }
80. 
    
81.       @Override
82.         public void onResults(Recognizer recognizer, Recognition results) {
83.         //if (_listeningDialog.isShowing()) dismissDialog(LISTENING_DIALOG);
84.         _currentRecognizer = null;
85.         //_listeningDialog.setRecording(false);
86.         int count = results.getResultCount();
87.         Recognition.Result [] rs = new Recognition.Result[count];
88.         for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
89.         {
90.           rs[i] = results.getResult(i);
91.         }
92.         println(rs);
93.         // for debugging purpose: printing out the speechkit session id
94.         println("Nuance SampleVoiceApp Recognizer.Listener.onResults: session id [" + _speechKit.getSessionId() + "]");
95.         recognizer.stopRecording();
96.       }
97.     };
98.   }
99. }