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Re: Sharing ListSelection

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Lew schrieb:
> Lew schrieb:
>...
> From the Swing tutorial,
> <http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/initial.html>
>> An initial thread schedules the GUI creation task by invoking
>> javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater or
>> javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait.
> ...
>> Why does not the initial thread simply create the GUI itself? Because
>> almost all code that creates or interacts with Swing components must
>> run on the event dispatch thread. 
> 
> Also, see the paragraph on "Main Method" and associated example from:
> <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Programming/SwingLargeExamples>
> 
> Understand that the documentation for Swing says that ALL methods and
> components must be accessed only from the EDT unless explicitly marked
> thread-safe.  They make no exception for constructors.
> <http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/dispatch.html>
> 
> The reason is that the threading model could allow EDT events to begin
> before the constructor completes unless you adhere to the dictum.  State
> might not transfer correctly between threads, given the memory model.
> 
> Such anomalies were observed in the field, which is why Sun updated its
> documentation.  They used to go ahead and tell people to construct GUIs
> on the initial thread, but now no longer.
> 

Thanks alot for enlightening me Lew. Even though it means I need to
change some code of mine ;)

Stefan

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