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From: Owen Green
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:39

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"Bob Rodehorst" <rrodehorst@seacorp.com> wrote in message
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> I've got a bit of a unique situation here, so bear with me...
>
> I have a screen which queries a database using JDBC/ODBC drivers.
Since
> ODBC drivers are notoriously slow, it takes a while for this screen to
> pop up while it's querying the DB

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> So, I tried putting the wait dialog in a separate thread, run using a

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> I've been told that it's not a good idea to put GUI actions inside of
> separate threads. Is this true? If so, how should I handle this
> situation? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
>
Why not put the DB access in a seperate thread?

FYI, doing GUI stuff outside of the event dispatch thread means you need
to use either SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait() or
SwingUtilities.invokeLater().

hth
Owen

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