Re: Basic program flow

Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.gui
Date	2013-10-17 16:55 -0700
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Subject	Re: Basic program flow
From	Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>

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markspace wrote:
> Christopher Pisz wrote:
>> Did I make a basic frame correctly? There seems to be 900 different ways
>> of doing it.
> 
> In addition to Joerge's excellent synopsis, you have to deal with 
> threading issues when using using Swing or AWT, as they do live in their 
> own threads.

Among other things, Christopher, you cannot just call GUI calls on the main thread
as you have done. You have to take steps to push those actions onto the Event Dispatch
Thread (EDT), or you get weird bugs.

> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/>
> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/>
> 
> Also, pick up a copy of Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz. 
> It's *the* book on Java concurrency.

The tutorials will get you started, though.

-- 
Lew

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  Re: Basic program flow Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-10-01 12:44 +0200
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  Re: Basic program flow markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-10-01 09:17 -0700
    Re: Basic program flow Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 16:55 -0700
  Re: Basic program flow Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2013-10-01 13:00 -0400
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