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1. How to wait for object creation in EDT without blocking EDT?    stackoverflow.com

I am using an API in a Java library which is called from the event dispatch thread and requires me to return a fully-initialized UI component. It looks like this:

public ...

2. Swing "blocking", I think I need to thread, but not sure how much    stackoverflow.com

I have a little java app to effectively "tail" an arbitrary collection of files defined in an ini file. My "LogReader" class extends JFrame, and does the heavy lifting; reading the ...

3. Why does my GUI still hang even after using SwingUtilities.invokeLater?    stackoverflow.com

I have this ActionListener that gets called in the EDT. My plot() function is computationally heavy, it can easily take five seconds. It made the GUI hang as expected. I added ...

4. Pattern for blocking Java Swing user in worker thread    stackoverflow.com

As most Java programmers know, updates to Swing GUIs should only be done on the AWT event dispatching thread and the recommendation is that long-running processes be executed on a "worker" ...

5. Is there a way to block the main thread until a swingworker is done?    stackoverflow.com

Possible Duplicate:
How do I wait for a SwingWorker's doInBackground() method?

6. SwingWorker synchronized method queue blocking or what?    stackoverflow.com

Theoretical question. If I have two SwingWorkers and an outputObject with method

public void synchronized outputToPane(String output)

//SwingWorker1
while(true) { 
   ...

7. How do i block user inputs till swing worker terminates ?    coderanch.com

8. How to wait on a Thread without blocking EDT?    coderanch.com

Hello, I have a program with a GUI where I choose multiple files for copying/extracting. The code is as follows: for(File fileName:selectedFiles) { selectedFileNames.add(fileName.getAbsolutePath() ); commandDisplay.append("Extracting: " + selectedFileNames.get(counter) + " " + selectDirName + "\n"); String str = args + selectedFileNames.get(counter) + " " + selectDirName; System.out.println("Executed command: "+ str + "\n"); Runnable run = new exec_class(args + selectedFileNames.get(counter) + ...