Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: markspace <-@.> Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Layout Doesn't Work Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:31:21 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <75d52d16-d119-4cee-a9b3-426de8ccbb5d@googlegroups.com> <7a7e6564-2761-4592-ad45-b071e0b25f0e@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 17:31:26 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="61282af8d6595e8d991edb5ac03d6e00"; logging-data="22437"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/syQWMzJQfvf9FiT4h6vRvTjNaOQW2Rho=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <7a7e6564-2761-4592-ad45-b071e0b25f0e@googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:eLYp9QBPQSJ5c/++zOr28bTFzPQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:17358 On 8/8/2012 10:22 AM, clusardi2k@aol.com wrote: > for (int i = 0;i < 100000; i++) > for (int i2 = 0;i2 < 100000; i2++); > for (int i3 = 0;i3 < 100000; i3++); You can't block the EDT like this. The loops stop the EDT from displaying any updates to the GUI. Use a SwingWorker to execute tasks off the EDT. Reading that entire trail (Concurrency in Swing) will be a benefit to you.