Pausing a movie to get screen grags

Question

Really basic question, but it is driving me crazy. What is
the best way to preview a .swf while in Flash and pause it as you
are viewing it so that you can get screen grabs? I work on a MAC
and I've found out that if i "control click" while viewing the
movie stops but as soon as I let go of anything it starts back up.
Any ideas?
thanks in advance

Answer 1

First thread.interrupt() is not implemented properly, when you call thr.interrupt() it won't throw InterruptedException. you need something like this in your run() function
public void run(){
     while( running ){
          Thread.interrupted(){
               running = False;
               // Add any other clean up logic in it.
               continue;
Second you should be able to achieve it via Semaphore with one permit. Whenever your have Dialog open acquire a lock on semaphore and inside while loop have this.
public void run(){
     while( running ){
          try{
                    Thread.interrupted()
                         running = False;
                         // Add cleanup code
                         continue;
                    sem.acquire();
               }finally{
                    sem.release();
This should be enough.