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Re: The invokeLater loop

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On 10 May 2013 18:54:38 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>  Maybe it provides a way to loop while still allowing
>  Swing events to be processed in parallel? (So you do not
>  always have to spawn another thread besides the EDT.)

You want Swing manipulation to run on the EDT and non Swing stuff to
run on some other threads.  invokeLater lets you put stuff on the
Swing thread from some non-Swing thread.  If you are already on the
Swing thread, you don't need it.
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The invokeLater loop ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2013-05-10 18:54 +0000
  Re: The invokeLater loop Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-05-10 12:18 -0700
    Re: The invokeLater loop Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-05-10 14:26 -0700
    Re: The invokeLater loop Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2013-05-10 23:28 +0200
    Re: The invokeLater loop Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-05-10 17:39 -0400
    Re: The invokeLater loop Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2013-05-10 23:50 +0200
  Re: The invokeLater loop markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-05-10 14:51 -0700
  Re: The invokeLater loop Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2013-05-11 00:26 +0200
    Re: The invokeLater loop Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-05-10 15:52 -0700
  Re: The invokeLater loop Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-05-10 23:27 -0700
    Re: The invokeLater loop "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2013-05-12 19:44 +1000
  Re: The invokeLater loop Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-01-30 20:48 -0800

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