Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog

From	"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.gui
Subject	Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog
Date	2012-12-27 16:34 -0500
Organization	The Wasteland
Message-ID	<nospam-68BF57.16343427122012@news.aioe.org> (permalink)
References	<EDT-20121227033249@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <kbgoak$ass$1@dont-email.me> <showMessageDialog-20121227071317@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <nospam-D5E268.10234727122012@news.aioe.org> <EDT-20121227165216@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>

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In article <EDT-20121227165216@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:

> "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> writes:
> >I'd say no. If the dialog is not constructed on the EDT, then 
> 
>   I the meantime, I also started to see it this way. So, then
> 
> public static void main( final java.lang.String args[] )
> { final java.lang.String name = JOptionPane.showInputDialog
>   ( "Hi, what's your name?" ); /* ... */ }
> 
>   is no good idea in a beginner's book (I saw something like
>   this in a Java textbook from 2011).

I can see this as an introductory example with the footnote, 
"The example is incorrect, as we'll learn in chapter _n_."

The Runnable variation might merit a nearby explanation
along these lines:

<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/initial.html>

-- 
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-26 22:03 -0800
  Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-12-27 10:23 -0500
    Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-27 09:06 -0800
      Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-12-27 16:16 -0500
    Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-12-27 16:34 -0500
      Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-12-29 10:38 -0500
        Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-31 12:00 -0800

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