Re: Debugging Question
RFleming@NationalSteel.com wrote:
This *might* be the Swing/EDT problem.
Look into SwingWorker.invokeLater(Thread) method, &
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/index.html>
Indeed that was the problem. I am somewhat new to JAVA [sic],
It's spelled "Java".
not programming. I was forced to learn 'by fire' Java when another person
left the company, and I inherited a program, it did not use the
swing.invokelater for the progress bars, and they get updated twice a
second, which occaisonally caused stack trace errors, but the program
ran fine. I added the Swing.invokelater thread and the errors went
away.
The issue is thread concurrency. The EDT (Event Dispatch Thread) is supposed
to handle all graphic actions, and only graphic actions. Any other lengthy
work should run in a different thread.
SwingWorker.invokeLater() is a cover method for EventQueue.invokeLater() which
is a convenience method to invoke graphic actions on the EDT instead of on the
wrong thread.
Multi-threading means concurrency headaches. Study it in the Java tutorial
and in /Java Concurrency in Practice/, by Brian Goetz, et al.
--
Lew
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