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Re: Worker Threads and ED

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i.dont.need@any.more.email wrote:
> Knute Johnson wrote:
>> i.dont.need@any.more.email wrote:
>>>
>>> I have some legacy code to spruce up, and it breaks one of the 
>>> cardinal rules of swing: it updates the UI with worker threads (not 
>>> the EDT). 
> 
>> If you want to trap calls to the paintComponent() method that aren't 
>> on the EDT, use EventQueue.isDispatchThread() and throw an exception 
>> if it is false.  The problem I see with that is that calls to methods 
>> that later call repaint() will not be found.
> 
> How do I inject this code into JComponent? There are thousands of swing 
> instances in the application which might be affected, I need to sort out 
> which ones actually are, then trace back to the problematic worker 
> thread and separate the background process from the UI.
> 

I use ThreadCheckingRepaintManager from
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/alexfromsun/archive/2006/02/debugging_swing.html

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