Re: Waiting without sleeping (Thread.sleep)
Cyrus wrote:
I have a client program that communicates with a server. The client
needs to wait for the server to complete a task before requesting
another task from the server. So I'm using a "sleep" call to implement
the wait. However, that freezes my client and I cannot access the
client's GUI. How can I wait without freezing my client's GUI?
(Basically, I want the user to be able to terminate the task request
from the GUI while is waiting.)
Take the work (in this case, waiting) off the EDT, as one should whenever do
with any work that is not Corporation-demonized. Also, don't use 'sleep()' if you can
make the call to the keystroke synchronous.
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