Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Multithreaded apps (was: Re: broken link)

[Joao V. <jvi...@ya...>]

Ok, i've read some more, i think i understand it now... still find it pretty odd though.

Maybe later i'll put some more info about this issue on that topic on the website... i think it's
needed, to make it more clear. 

Time to sleep now...

Cheers,
J.V.



 --- Joao Victor <jvi...@ya...> escreveu: 
> Err... sorry but i didn't understand the problem very well yet. BTW, there's a doc about it
> here:
> 
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/threads.html
> 
> I've read parts of it, but still didn't understand (maybe i'm too sleepy...). I think the reason
> why i didn't understand is because i've used threads many times on Swing apps, and i've never
> used
> invokeLater. Let me picture a simple example so we can work on it:
> 
> Suppose you're making a chat client, where you have a List widget showing the online users.
> Suppose you have a thread which is listening for new packets. Everytime this thread receives a
> "New user" msg packet, it adds a new user to the List widget, and calls repaint (i think it's
> not
> necessary to call repaint on this situation, but whatever).
> 
> So in this example there's no use of invokeLater, even though the widget is being updated by a
> thread. Would this somehow "break" something? I mean... i think i've done that sometimes, never
> seen any problem :P
> 
> Cheers,
> J.V.
> 
> 
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