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On 6/5/2011 10:17 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:

> On 06/05/2011 01:39 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
>> 2. your invokeLater or event handler could interact with the GUI then
>> spawn a new background thread to process the data.

> That's sort of backwards from the way I need to do it. I have a running
> thread that needs to collect data from some GUI components, process it
> and send it along.

I think Roedy is right.  You can invokeLater (or invokeAndWait) and then 
in that Runnable kick off a new process.

I guess the main question would be "send it along" where?  It might make 
a difference.  Send it back to the caller or send it elsewhere?