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Re: Question about updati

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<steen@jost.dk> wrote in message 
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> Hey all,
>
> I've been so "lucky" that I've inherited a big applet that I would like
> to improve.
>
> It has a set of buttons that perform some very lengthy processes and I
> would like to add a progressbar to it, so the user can see that
> something is actually happening..;)
>
> But I cant quite get it to work. The following code shows how the code
> is right now, can anyone tell me how I get the loop inside the
> MouseAdapter to actually update the progressbar ? (The code needs to be
> 1.3 compliant)
>
> The solution is probably very straightforward, but this is my first
> adventure into the world of Swing...:)
>
> [code]
<snip>
>        button.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
>            public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent ev) {
>                for (int i=0; i<101;i++) {
>                    bar.setValue(i);
>                    try {
>                        Thread.sleep(500);
>                    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
>                        e.printStackTrace();
>                    }
>                }
>           }
>        });
<snip>
> [/code]
>

Everything inside the mouseClicked() method (i.e., the
task that takes a long time) should be done in
a separate thread. As it is now, you are blocking
the event thread, so nothing gets re-drawn until you
return from that method
-- 
Fred L. Kleinschmidt
Boeing Associate Technical Fellow
Technical Architect, Software Reuse Project

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