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The invokeLater loop

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From	ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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  I invented what I call the »invokeLater loop«:

class Object implements java.lang.Runnable
{ int i = 0;
  public void run()
  { java.lang.System.out.println( i++ );
    javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater( this ); }}

public class Main
{ public static void main( final java.lang.String[] args )
  { javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater( new Object() ); }}

  What is it good for? 

  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.)

  One also might see it as a kind of recursion that will not
  overflow that stack. But since it does not atually nest
  incarnations, it is not really adopted for recursive programming.

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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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