Java tutorial
/* class SyncQueue * * Copyright (C) 2001 R M Pitman * * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU * Lesser General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public * License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA */ package charva.awt; import charva.awt.event.AWTEvent; import org.apache.commons.logging.Log; import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory; /** * This class is used to coalesce several "sync" events together, * if possible. This speeds up redrawing. * The queue also handles GarbageCollectionEvents. */ class SyncQueue extends java.util.LinkedList { private static SyncQueue _instance; private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(SyncQueue.class); private SyncQueue() { super(); } public static SyncQueue getInstance() { if (_instance == null) { _instance = new SyncQueue(); /* Start a thread to read from the SyncQueue. Make it a daemon * thread so that the program will exit when the main thread * ends. */ SyncThread thr = new SyncThread(_instance, EventQueue.getInstance()); thr.setDaemon(true); thr.setName("sync thread"); thr.start(); } return _instance; } public synchronized void postEvent(AWTEvent evt_) { _instance.addLast(evt_); _instance.notifyAll(); // wake up the dequeueing thread } public synchronized AWTEvent getNextEvent() { /* If the queue is empty, block until another thread enqueues * an event. */ while (super.size() == 0) { try { wait(); } catch (InterruptedException ie) { LOG.error("SyncQueue.getNextEvent() should never be interrupted!", ie); } } return (AWTEvent) _instance.removeFirst(); } public synchronized boolean isEmpty() { return (_instance.size() == 0); } }