Canvas never gets shown (visible) on i85s, emulator works

Question

Hi,
I have a class that has two canvases: one is very lightweight and I show it immediately, the other I create in a thread and block on the completion.
The thread run() method after creating the canvas, does
a setCurrent(canvas) and I'm able to verify that it occurs. The flag to continue is set and I block again
on showNotify () which I have a second flag.
showNotify() on the i85s never gets called though and my game never updates. It does work on the emulator i85s though.
The code stripped down is like this.
Class Manager extends TimerTask
Thread loaderT = null;
Loader loader = null;
BigCanvas bc = null;
Manager() {
loader = new Loader (this);
loaderT = new Thread(loader);
loaderT.start();
// this method called manager is instantiated
void start() {
timer = new Timer(); timer.schedule(this,0,delay);
setCurrentAndVisible(tmpCanvas);
// managers run
void run (){
if (!loader.done){
current.repaint(); return;
// done loading,
loaderThread = null;
advanceStates();
if (bc.visible){ // set when showNotify() called
bg.repaint();
class Loader implements Runnable{
Manager m = null; BigCanvas c = null; done = false;
Loader(Manager m){
this.m = m;
run () {
m.bc = new BigCanvas();
m.d.setCurrent(c);
done = true;
please note that the classes and methods arent exactly as they are in my code, i just copied what the process was and renamed variables to make sense in a forum-setting. the code all compiles and runs fine in the emulator (so if i misspelled things, or left out of part of method sigs above please dont worry about correcting it), I'm just trying to explain my programming method above not write exactly compiling code.
TempCanvas and Loader are both inner-classes of Manager also.
thanks a lot!
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I find mailing lists easier to keep track of then forums.

Answer 1

please note,
setCurrentAndVisible does the following
setCurrentAndVisible(BaseCanvas c)
current = c;
d.setCurrent(current);
and current is a BaseCanvas in Manager.
Also in Loader.run() , m.d.setCurrent(c); is actually
m.setCurrentAndVisible(c);
thanks!