Re: Synchronization when collecting data from the EDT?
On 06/05/2011 01:39 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 17:38:12 -0700, Knute Johnson
<nospam@knutejohnson.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone
who said :
If you want to remove some data from the EDT and use it in another
thread, does EventQueue.invokeLater() or invokeAndWait(
A few thoughts.
1. A few of the Swing methods are inherently thread safe.
In the current version of the docs, JTextComponent.getText() is no
longer marked as thread safe.
2. your invokeLater or event handler could interact with the GUI then
spawn a new background thread to process the data.
That's sort of backwards from the way I need to do it. I have a running
thread that needs to collect data from some GUI components, process it
and send it along.
3. Usually interaction is spawned by the user -- at an event handler.
And usually in that instance in the invokeLater Runnable you get some
data from your GUI and start a new thread to process them. Starting a
new thread, guarantees "happens before".
Thanks,
--
Knute Johnson
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