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Re: Keeping GUI responsiv

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Alex wrote:
>> I do some lengthy calculations in the event handling thread and
>> therefore my GUI is not responsive.
>> I know I could run the calculations in a worker thread, but I wonder
>> if there is not a simpler way.
>>
>> In C++ with the Qt class library there is a 'processEvents()' methods
>> that can be called from the event handling thread to process pending
>> (GUI) events. Is there something equivalent in Java or do I absolutely
>> need a worker thread?

Knute Johnson wrote:
> Yes.

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/SwingWorker.html>

Read the Swing tutorial.  It covers the need to do all GUI work, even 
construction, on the Event Dispatch Thread (EDT), the GUI thread.

Don't try to wiggle out of this.  It is a curiosity to me that some people 
look for a "way out" of having to put work not on the EDT and GUI only on the 
EDT.  That's the way it works.  Just do it right, and things work.  What's 
there to get "out" of?  How is it not simple enough the way it is?

Just learn the right way.

-- 
Lew

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Re: Keeping GUI responsiv "Lew" <lew@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:46 +0000
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