Re: invokeLater and weird race conditions in my swing app
Lew wrote:
Anyway, fear and loathing in Las Vegas aside, the hard fact is that you must
be aware of the multithreaded nature of Swing programs to use the library.
That means:
- all, absolutely all graphical work /must/ happen on the EDT;
- long-running tasks like resource access might tie up the GUI unacceptably
if run on the EDT, so:
- do not run business logic on the EDT.
That might not be easy, but that's why they pay us the big bucks.
apm35@student.open.ac.uk wrote:
I have finally come to see this now. Your comments have been very
helpful to me. I think other java tutorials on the subject need to say
this with the kind of clarity that you do. You have said why it is
essential which is certainly what I have found. Others either don't
mention it at all or tag it on as an optional extra.
Thank you for the kind words, but actually many sources do say this, much more
clearly than I and with code examples, too.
The best I've seen so far on multithreading in Java is the book /Java
Concurrency in Practice/, by Brain Goetz, et al. Chapter 9 is devoted to
Swing threading issues, and I've seen at least part of that chapter on line as
a sample of the book.
John Zukowski's article at
<http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-08-2007/jw-08-swingthreading.html>
is an excellent exposition on why Swing is what it is and what to do about it.
--
Lew
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