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Peter

I have the same problem.
Have tried something like this and it seems to work.

In the button event method:

     set cursor to WAIT_CURSOR
     perform any other gui changes ( set status bar message etc.)
     invoke "network stuff" method in another Thread.

in the "network stuff" method
    do network stuff
    invoke a "gui-update" method in the event thread, by using
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(Runnable)


in the "gui-update" method

   update gui with new info from network
   set cursor to DEFAULT_CURSOR

jan


Peter Hawkins wrote in message <3621FD6E.D0213F03@hos.horizon.ie>...
>Hi,
>
>I have a swing application which reacts to a button press by calling a
>method in another class. This method makes a network connection to
>another host, retrieves some data and returns. I thought that it would
>be good to set the cursor to the WAIT_CURSOR before the method call and
>reset it on return to give the user some indication that something is
>happening.
>
>However I find that the cursor does not get updated until the method
>returns, in which case it immediatly gets set back again. The code looks
>something like this:
>