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Jack wrote:

> I have a simple application composed of a JFrame with
> a JTextArea and a JButton. When I press the JButton,
> I do some iterative file processing which takes awhile.
> What I would like to do is "append()" the file name
> to the JTextArea after processing each file and have
> it immediately displayed in the JTextArea. What is happening
> is that it waits until the very end and then displays all
> the file names at once. Does anyone know how I can get
> the JTextArea to refresh itself after each append?

You have to spawn a separate thread to do the file processing.
Please read this article:

  http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/threads/threads2.html


Paul Furbacher (TeamB)