RE: [ajug-members]: Wait()

["Donald Bleyl" <donald_bleyl@hotmail.com>]

You need to catch InterruptedException to use it.
Do not call it on the event dispatch thread.

Download SwingWorker from sun (google), wrap your long-running process in 
construct() method,
and manipulate the gui in finished() or by using 
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(Runnable) or
SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(Runnable).

invokeAndWait() requires you to catch/throw InvocationTargetException:

i.e.

SwingWorker worker = new SwingWorker() {

public Object construct() {
  //your long running process, i.e.
  try {
   Thread.yield(6000);
  } catch (InterruptedException ie) {
   //put a joption pop-up on the event queue.
   try {
         SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait( new Runnable() {
              public void run() {
                  textField.setText("something happened");
                 JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "What happened?");
             }
         });
         } catch (InterruptedException ie2) {
               ie2.printStackTrace();
         } catch (InvocationTargetException ite) {
               ite.printStackTrace();
         }
    }
}
//finished is 'on' the event dispatch thread, so it's ok.
public void finished() {

       textField.setText("Finished");
}
};
worker.start();

Or something like that.

>Do you have to setup any threads to use it, or can it be used say to show a
>splash screen for x seconds and then continue processing?  Do you have to
>declare any includes?
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Cody Wehunt
>cody@wehunt.net
>770-402-9189 Cell
>770-226-5938 Work
>My   <http://wehuntnet.instaccount.net/images/two_cent.gif> as always.
>
>
>
>   _____
>
>From: Jim Worthington [mailto:jim.worthington@worthsoft.com]
>Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:41 PM
>To: ajug-members@ajug.org
>Subject: RE: [ajug-members]: Wait()
>
>
>Thread.sleep(30000L) is the equivalent. The argument is a long and the 
>units
>are milliseconds.
>
>- Jim Worthington
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cody Wehunt [mailto:cody@wehunt.net]
>Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:24 PM
>To: ajug-members@ajug.org
>Subject: [ajug-members]: Wait()
>
>
>Is there a built in wait function in JAVA?
>
>i.e.
>
>wait(30); //hold processing for 30 seconds
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Cody Wehunt
>cody@wehunt.net
>770-402-9189 Cell
>770-226-5938 Work
>My   <http://wehuntnet.instaccount.net/images/two_cent.gif> as always.
>
>
>

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