Re: SwingWorker and exceptions in the doInBackground method
Hendrik Maryns wrote:
I have this long preprocessing task in a Swing app I2"d like to be done
in the background, so I am working through
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/index.html.
As I understand it, the method doInBackground in SwingWorker is not
supposed to do anything with the GUI. However, what I do in there may
throw exceptions, which I2"d like to handle with error messages to the user.
To avoid mixing GUI and non-GUI code in doInBackGround, I generally do
it this way:
new SwingWorker<Void,Void>() {
SomeException pendingException = null;
// Non GUI work goes in here
protected Void doInBackGround {
try {
// something
} catch (SomeException e) {
pendingException = e;
}
}
// GUI stuff here
protected void done() {
if (pendingException != null) {
JOptionPane.ShowMessageDIalog(...);
}
}
}.execute();
For me, the advantage of Swingworker is that you *DON'T* need to use
SwningUtilities.invokeLater() yourself. YMMV.
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