Re: Threads and Swing

Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 08:23:10 +0000 (UTC)
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Mark Preston <email-address-deleted> writes:
> Yes, you had - but somehow no-one ever got around to telling me that
> huge great swathes of the Swing GUI are _not_ thread-safe.
I guess everyone assumes that you know. Every introduction to Swing
mentions it. And the better introductions, courses and tutorial also
explain how to synchronize a separate thread with the Swing event
dispatching thread (Swing's thread from which changes to the GUI should
be done): invokeLater() or invokeAndWait() and a Runnable with the code
that should be executed from the EDT.
There is also a Sun TSC article where Sun explains why they didn't go
for a thread save Swing implementation.
/Thomas