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This program demonstrates a swing-worker thread that runs a potentially time-consuming task

 
/*
 This program is a part of the companion code for Core Java 8th ed.
 (http://horstmann.com/corejava)

 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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 */

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.concurrent.CancellationException;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;

import javax.swing.JFileChooser;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.SwingWorker;

/**
 * This program demonstrates a worker thread that runs a potentially
 * time-consuming task.
 * 
 * @version 1.1 2007-05-18
 * @author Cay Horstmann
 */
public class SwingWorkerTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      public void run() {
        JFrame frame = new SwingWorkerFrame();
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setVisible(true);
      }
    });
  }
}

/**
 * This frame has a text area to show the contents of a text file, a menu to
 * open a file and cancel the opening process, and a status line to show the
 * file loading progress.
 */
class SwingWorkerFrame extends JFrame {
  public SwingWorkerFrame() {
    chooser = new JFileChooser();
    chooser.setCurrentDirectory(new File("."));

    textArea = new JTextArea();
    add(new JScrollPane(textArea));
    setSize(DEFAULT_WIDTH, DEFAULT_HEIGHT);

    statusLine = new JLabel(" ");
    add(statusLine, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

    JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
    setJMenuBar(menuBar);

    JMenu menu = new JMenu("File");
    menuBar.add(menu);

    openItem = new JMenuItem("Open");
    menu.add(openItem);
    openItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
        // show file chooser dialog
        int result = chooser.showOpenDialog(null);

        // if file selected, set it as icon of the label
        if (result == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
          textArea.setText("");
          openItem.setEnabled(false);
          textReader = new TextReader(chooser.getSelectedFile());
          textReader.execute();
          cancelItem.setEnabled(true);
        }
      }
    });

    cancelItem = new JMenuItem("Cancel");
    menu.add(cancelItem);
    cancelItem.setEnabled(false);
    cancelItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
        textReader.cancel(true);
      }
    });
  }

  private class ProgressData {
    public int number;

    public String line;
  }

  private class TextReader extends SwingWorker<StringBuilder, ProgressData> {
    public TextReader(File file) {
      this.file = file;
    }

    // the following method executes in the worker thread; it doesn't touch
    // Swing components

    @Override
    public StringBuilder doInBackground() throws IOException, InterruptedException {
      int lineNumber = 0;
      Scanner in = new Scanner(new FileInputStream(file));
      while (in.hasNextLine()) {
        String line = in.nextLine();
        lineNumber++;
        text.append(line);
        text.append("\n");
        ProgressData data = new ProgressData();
        data.number = lineNumber;
        data.line = line;
        publish(data);
        Thread.sleep(1); // to test cancellation; no need to do this in your
                          // programs
      }
      return text;
    }

    // the following methods execute in the event dispatch thread

    @Override
    public void process(List<ProgressData> data) {
      if (isCancelled())
        return;
      StringBuilder b = new StringBuilder();
      statusLine.setText("" + data.get(data.size() - 1).number);
      for (ProgressData d : data) {
        b.append(d.line);
        b.append("\n");
      }
      textArea.append(b.toString());
    }

    @Override
    public void done() {
      try {
        StringBuilder result = get();
        textArea.setText(result.toString());
        statusLine.setText("Done");
      } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
      } catch (CancellationException ex) {
        textArea.setText("");
        statusLine.setText("Cancelled");
      } catch (ExecutionException ex) {
        statusLine.setText("" + ex.getCause());
      }

      cancelItem.setEnabled(false);
      openItem.setEnabled(true);
    }

    private File file;

    private StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder();
  };

  private JFileChooser chooser;

  private JTextArea textArea;

  private JLabel statusLine;

  private JMenuItem openItem;

  private JMenuItem cancelItem;

  private SwingWorker<StringBuilder, ProgressData> textReader;

  public static final int DEFAULT_WIDTH = 450;

  public static final int DEFAULT_HEIGHT = 350;
}

   
  








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