Re: Outside of the EDT: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog

"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> writes:


  In my own teachings, I now use Swing outside of the EDT first
  in a simple example, where I believe that nothing bad is going
  to happen:

public class Main
{ public static void main( final java.lang.String[] args )
  { java.lang.System.out.println( javax.swing.Timer.getLogTimers() );
    javax.swing.Timer.setLogTimers( true );
    java.lang.System.out.println( javax.swing.Timer.getLogTimers() );
    javax.swing.Timer.setLogTimers( false );
    java.lang.System.out.println( javax.swing.Timer.getLogTimers() ); }}

  I want to show, how state can have an effect on the results
  of method invocations, but at this time only want to use
  static methods. There is not so much choice for predefined
  static methods of this kind in Java, since I also have other
  constraints (I do not have even introduced variables at this
  point), so I chose the above methods (another method of this
  kind being System.getProperty).

  The next example uses the
  technique you give above, .------------------.
  i.e., I create a JFrame | This might look |
  outside of the EDT and | wrong, but it is |
  explain that this is wrong, | supposed to be |
  but more simple for the | a German word! |
  moment, and the correct way '------------------'
  will be shown later. |
                                                 '-------------.
public class Main |
{ public static void main( final java.lang.String[] args ) v
  { final javax.swing.JFrame frame = new javax.swing.JFrame( "Hallo Swing!" );
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( javax.swing.JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
    frame.setVisible( true ); }}

  It hurts somewhat to see this, but this example appears
  just after the introduction of ?new?, and makes the effect
  of ?new? visible somehow, so I thought it might be a good
  motivation. In a sense, a JFrame is a ?visible object?, so
  this example visualizes objects, which might help to learn.
  But I have not yet introduced interface implementations, and
  so I cannot yet implement java.lang.Runnable.