Re: Swing, Threads, and Progress meters.

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From: david solan
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 00:00

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Hi there

Check out the SwingUtilities.UpdateLater method. Sounds like that is what you
need to get your updates to happen outside the eventdispatch thread.

Dave

"John P. McGrath" wrote:

> On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 06:50:22 GMT, Olaf Raether wrote:
>
> > take a look at the ProgressMonitor class in javax.swing
>
> I did - I even mentioned ProgressMonitor in my post.
>
> > >The ProgressMeter / ProgressMonitor examples I have seen all perform the
> > >long task in a separate thread, and my application currently does all of
> > >its work in the event-dispatch thread.  I am concerned that moving this
> > >work to a separate thread may cause problems.
>
> My question has to do with the concurrency issues that I think I will
> have to deal with if I use ProgressMeter or ProgressMonitor.  Does
> ProgressMonitor help with this in some way that I am not aware of?
>
> --
> John P. McGrath
> <mcgrath@enter.net>
> <jpm@nscs.fast.net>

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