🚀 go-pugleaf

I answered my own question, but thought I would put it out here for any 
interested party...

I put the database processing in a separate class that extended thread. This 
allowed the JList to update itself in the main thread.

In article <t693ggodpg05a@corp.supernews.com>, richardkessler@matteicos.com 
says...
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>Can someone tell me how to force a jList to paint. I am loading messages from 
a 
>processing loop into the box to give a status of where the processing is, but 
>it does not paint until processing is finished (not much good that way!). I 
>would like to be able to force a paint after each addElement and also make the 
>jList scroll to the last element so that the messages can be viewed as things 
>go along.
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>In the VB world, a DoEvents would do the trick, but I do not know the 
>couterpart in JAVA.
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>Any help would be greatly appreciated...
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>Thanks in advance,
>
>Richard
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