Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT?
On 06/05/2011 08:52 AM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
On 05/06/2011 02:38, Knute Johnson allegedly wrote:
If you want to remove some data from the EDT and use it in another
thread, does EventQueue.invokeLater() or invokeAndWait() constitute
happens before? I don't think it does, so in that case, if you need
to access some data from your GUI components and use that data on
another thread there has to be some synchronization.
Knute, sorry for being dense, but I don't quite get how this situation
differs from any other "passing" of data across threads, nor how
#invokeLater() or #invokeAndWait() enter into it as something else than
your regular parallel ("worker" or whatever) thread.
Could you indulge me and shed some light, please?
I don't know that it does, I guess I was hoping that when Sun wrote
invokeLater and AndWait that they assumed that you were getting there
from another thread and put some sort of synchronization in. And maybe
I'm looking for some insight as to how you would do this any other way.
I still think that invokeAndWait has problems if the current thread is
interrupted before execution reaches the synchronized block in the Runnable.
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Knute Johnson
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