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 *******************************************************************************/ /* * BusyIndicator example snippet: display busy cursor during long running task * * For a list of all SWT example snippets see * http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/ */ import org.eclipse.swt.SWT; import org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator; import org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionAdapter; import org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionEvent; import org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridData; import org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridLayout; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Button; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text; public class BusyCursorDisplay { public static void main(String[] args) { final Display display = new Display(); final Shell shell = new Shell(display); shell.setLayout(new GridLayout()); final Text text = new Text(shell, SWT.MULTI | SWT.BORDER | SWT.V_SCROLL); text.setLayoutData(new GridData(GridData.FILL_BOTH)); final int[] nextId = new int[1]; Button b = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH); b.setText("invoke long running job"); b.addSelectionListener(new SelectionAdapter() { public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent e) { Runnable longJob = new Runnable() { boolean done = false; int id; public void run() { Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() { public void run() { id = nextId[0]++; display.syncExec(new Runnable() { public void run() { if (text.isDisposed()) return; text.append("\nStart long running task " + id); } }); for (int i = 0; i < 100000; i++) { if (display.isDisposed()) return; System.out.println("do task that takes a long time in a separate thread " + id); } if (display.isDisposed()) return; display.syncExec(new Runnable() { public void run() { if (text.isDisposed()) return; text.append("\nCompleted long running task " + id); } }); done = true; display.wake(); } }); thread.start(); while (!done && !shell.isDisposed()) { if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep(); } } }; BusyIndicator.showWhile(display, longJob); } }); shell.setSize(250, 150); shell.open(); while (!shell.isDisposed()) { if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep(); } display.dispose(); } }