Re: How Do I Make My Appl

From	"david" <david@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Subject	Re: How Do I Make My Appl
Message-ID	<m3vekyueiz.fsf@freewill.com> (permalink)
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.gui
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Date	2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
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  To: comp.lang.java.gui
"Jason Cavett" <jason.cavett@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm currently designign a GUI and, while it's going pretty well, I've
> noticed when I do something like open an document using the GUI, the
> drop down menu (File > Open) that I've created doesn't immediately
> disappear.  It seems to hang there for a moment and refreshes after the
> document is starting to open.  This happens with other things as well.
>
> I tried turning on Swing's built in double-buffering on the menus, but
> that doesn't seem to help any.  I have also searched around on the web
> to see if there was any information on how to fix this problem.
>
> Basically, I'm wondering - how do I make my app "feel" faster so user's
> don't get the impression that the application is lagging (even though
> it really isn't).
>


Are you using multiple threads: 1 for the GUI, one for the file processing?

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How Do I Make My Applicat "Jason Cavett" <jason.cavett@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
  Re: How Do I Make My Appl "david" <david@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
  Re: How Do I Make My Appl "Steve W. Jackson" <steve.w..jackson@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
    Re: How Do I Make My Appl "Jason Cavett" <jason.cavett@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
      Re: How Do I Make My Appl "Steve W. Jackson" <steve.w..jackson@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
        Re: How Do I Make My Appl "Jason Cavett" <jason.cavett@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
  Re: How Do I Make My Appl "steve" <steve@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
  Re: How Do I Make My Appl "Timasmith" <timasmith@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:26 +0000
  Re: How Do I Make My Appl "Andrew Thompson" <andrew.thompson@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this> - 2011-04-27 15:26 +0000

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