Re: How to get and use SwingWorker in Java 1.4?

From:
"ap" <a2004@pluess.name>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.gui
Date:
17 Jun 2006 03:50:45 -0700
Message-ID:
<1150541445.510986.236270@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

I have some fuzzy ideas that I will attempt to explain.

It depends upon the meaning of "GUI event", and it depends upon what events
you are listening for. There are high level events (e.g. a button is
pushed, a scroll bar is scrolled), and lower level events (e.g. a window
gained focus).
One example of what can happen:
You may be listening for text entry or button pushes, but what about your
window being maximized? This will trigger a call to update(),
paintComponents() (and maybe calls to invalidate(), validate(), to the
LayoutManager, etc.), all on the EDT.


I agree completely with this possible scenario, so there is no way to
conform with the single-thread rule for a time-consuming job without
delegating it from EDT to another thread (can be the main-thread too).

The problem remains, that - without SwingWorker & Co - I have to wrap
all the Swing calls into a class in order use them from outside EDT
with invokeLater/invokeAndWait. It would be nice the have some
framework like

public class _JTextField extends JTextField implements Runnable
{
  private String text;

  public _JTextField(String text, int columns)
  {
    super(text, columns);
  }

  public void setText(String text)
  {
    this.text = text;
    try
    {
      SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(this);
    }
    catch (Exception ex) {}
  }

  public void run()
  {
    assert SwingUtilities.isEventDispatchThread() : "Not in EDT";
    super.setText(text);
  }
}

With it, I'am back to the simple call from any thread (other than EDT):

   _JTextField tf = new _JTextField("init", 10);
   ...
   tf.setText("run") ...

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