create a dialog with a waiting message box

From:

"giangiammy@gmail.com" <giangiammy@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

27 Jul 2006 06:24:49 -0700

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<1154006689.718105.289470@s13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

hi all,

I have a button which opens a window with some drawing.
I havea slow initialization phase, so I'd like to show a
dialog window with the message "initializing..."

My coinvoking code is something like:

  private void doMap(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {

        // TODO add your handling code here:
        System.out.println("Launching Configure Maps");

        // INVOCATION 1
        WaitingWindowUI ww = new WaitingWindowUI("xxxxx");

        // INVOCATION 2
        Configuremapandsensors conf = new Configuremapandsensors();
        conf.setVisible(true);
    }

the proble is that if I call INVOCATION 1 (and comment out INVOCATION2)
I see my pop up window with the message, if I comment out INVOCATION1
and call just INVOCATION 2 I got my window after some seconds,
but if I call INVOCATION 1 and INVOCATION 2 I see a rectangle where
there should be my waiting message, and after some second I see
my window and the waiting message.

It seems that when I call
WaitingWindowUI ww = new WaitingWindowUI("xxxxx");

it is not shown until the window of INVOCATION 2 is complete.
What am I missing?
How can I force to show the waiting message?
Any examples of this kind?
(by the way, I tried ww.setVisible(true) or ww.show(0, with no results)

thanks
giammy