Re: Getting a thread to return data to the GUI periodically
Pkid wrote:
Hi
I am new to Java and threading. I am trying to write a GUI program
that does some networking using the NIO. I get the GUI to create a
new instance of my object that does the networking and then call the
start() method of that object to get the thread running. I want the
thread to be able to return data to the GUI so that I can display what
is happening in the thread on the GUI. So if a new connection is made
I want to display that in the a textarea in the GUI.
The code sort of looks like this:
In the constructor of the GUI I do the following:
MyNetworkClass newInstance = new MyNetworkClass
newInstance.start()
The network class would do something like:
public class MyNetworkClass extends Thread
{
public void run()
{
infinite loop handling networking events
}
}
How about something like a listener? The network code defines an
interface with a method for each type of event it can report, with
suitable parameters to convey the details. The GUI code creates an
object that implements that interface and passes it to the network code
constructor.
In the case of a GUI, some methods in the listener object may need to
call invokeLater to get things run in the event handling thread. That is
an issue for the GUI, and not something the network code should need to
care about.
Patricia
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