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Re: Does this make sense?

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Instead of interrupt(), you might also 
simply close the WatchService. It should cancel
WatchKeys that are in progress.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/WatchKey.html

Disclaimer: I have never used watchers. I
guess some IDEs use it also, to get notified
about changed stuff. So its quite useful...

On Friday, April 5, 2019 at 7:53:44 PM UTC+2, burs...@gmail.com wrote:
> I think you don't need an extra thread. Since
> Swing runs anyway in its own thread. 
> If you display a non-modal window, the current
> thread will not block. And you can perform
> 
> the for(;;) loop in the main thread itself, without
> starting a thread. The problem is only, how does
> the main thread get events from the watcher and
> from the window? Well the same way, via interrupt().
> 
> So the main thread can detect whether it go a
> watcher.take() or whether it got interrupted.
> And it can gracefully terminate and close also
> whatever resources it has opened. If some tooling
> 
> shows an error somewhere, submit a bug report.
> Lets see what they say...
> 
> On Friday, April 5, 2019 at 5:39:25 PM UTC+2, Eric Douglas wrote:
> > On Thursday, April 4, 2019 at 8:33:50 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

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Does this make sense? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-04-04 05:22 -0700
  Re: Does this make sense? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-04-04 09:03 -0400
    Re: Does this make sense? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-04-04 07:02 -0700
      Re: Does this make sense? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-04-04 11:01 -0400
        Re: Does this make sense? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-04-04 08:21 -0700
        Re: Does this make sense? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-04-04 11:45 -0700
          Re: Does this make sense? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-04-04 20:33 -0400
            Re: Does this make sense? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2019-04-05 08:39 -0700
              Re: Does this make sense? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2019-04-05 12:31 -0400
              Re: Does this make sense? bursejan@gmail.com - 2019-04-05 10:53 -0700
                Re: Does this make sense? bursejan@gmail.com - 2019-04-05 10:57 -0700
                Re: Does this make sense? bursejan@gmail.com - 2019-04-05 11:02 -0700
                Re: Does this make sense? bursejan@gmail.com - 2019-04-05 11:13 -0700
          Re: Does this make sense? Patrick Roemer <sangamon@netcologne.de> - 2019-04-05 17:43 +0200
            Re: Does this make sense? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2019-04-07 22:14 +0200
      Re: Does this make sense? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2019-04-04 15:15 +0000

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