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Doychin Bondzhev wrote:

> If you come from Delphi then you know that when you want to update some 
> property in a VCL control you have to do this in the main thread and for 
> that purpose in TThread you have Synchronize method that you use to call 
> other methods which should be executed in the context of the main thread.
> 
> In java you have to follow the same rules but here it is a little bit 
> different. The way it is done is by use methods called invokeLater and 
> invokeAndWait
> 
> These 2 methods are static and are defined in SwingUtilities class.

In addition, there is a tutorial on JProgressBar which discusses this:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/progress.html
http://java.sun.com/developer/TechTips/2000/tt0912.html#tip2


The Swing Tutorial may be of general interest to both newcomers and
experienced hands who haven't done Swing in a while (myself included):

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/GUI/swingtut/index.html


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