Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT?

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.gui
Subject	Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT?
Date	2011-06-05 13:39 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
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On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 17:38:12 -0700, Knute Johnson
<nospam@knutejohnson.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :

>If you want to remove some data from the EDT and use it in another 
>thread, does EventQueue.invokeLater() or invokeAndWait(

A few thoughts.  

1. A few of the Swing methods are inherently thread safe.

2. your invokeLater or event handler could interact with the GUI then
spawn a new background thread to process the data.

3. Usually interaction is spawned by the user -- at an event handler.
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Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-06-04 17:38 -0700
  Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-06-04 17:50 -0700
  Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-06-05 17:52 +0200
    Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-06-05 10:47 -0700
      Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-05 23:47 -0400
        Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-06-05 22:11 -0700
          Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-06-06 14:31 +0200
          Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-06 23:03 -0400
            Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-06-07 18:51 +0200
              Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-07 13:38 -0400
                Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-06-08 00:10 +0200
                Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-07 23:51 -0400
                Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-06-10 01:17 +0200
                Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-06-10 01:25 +0200
                Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-09 22:34 -0400
                Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-06-10 05:22 +0200
                Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? markspace <-@.> - 2011-06-10 08:04 -0700
                Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-10 21:13 -0400
                Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-06-12 12:51 -0700
                Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? markspace <-@.> - 2011-06-07 23:31 -0700
                Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-06-08 23:07 -0700
                Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-09 18:35 -0400
                Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-06-12 12:45 -0700
            Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-06-08 23:05 -0700
              Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-09 14:35 -0400
  Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-06-05 13:39 -0700
    Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-06-05 22:17 -0700
      Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? markspace <-@.> - 2011-06-07 14:51 -0700
  Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? markspace <-@.> - 2011-06-05 17:46 -0700
    Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-06-05 22:41 -0700
      Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-06-06 14:35 +0200

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