Java tutorial
/******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2000, 2004 IBM Corporation and others. * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors: * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation *******************************************************************************/ import org.eclipse.swt.SWT; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.ProgressBar; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell; public class ProgressBarUpdateAnotherThread { public static void main(String[] args) { final Display display = new Display(); Shell shell = new Shell(display); final ProgressBar bar = new ProgressBar(shell, SWT.SMOOTH); bar.setBounds(10, 10, 200, 32); shell.open(); final int maximum = bar.getMaximum(); new Thread() { public void run() { for (final int[] i = new int[1]; i[0] <= maximum; i[0]++) { try { Thread.sleep(100); } catch (Throwable th) { } if (display.isDisposed()) return; display.asyncExec(new Runnable() { public void run() { if (bar.isDisposed()) return; bar.setSelection(i[0]); } }); } } }.start(); while (!shell.isDisposed()) { if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep(); } display.dispose(); } }