Re: Alternatives to Threading?

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From: Mike Mormando
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:01

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"Bob Rodehorst" <rrodehorst@seacorp.com> wrote in message
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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!
I believe, at least with Swing, that GUI updates will only take place in the
main thread, no matter what you try to do.
I think Owen's suggestion is best, put up your wait screen and do the
queries in the threads.
Mike

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