[Jsynthlib-devel] Multi-threaded SysexGetDialog....

[Joe E. <jo...@em...>]

As it is now, SysexGetDialog executes a Driver's sendPatchRequest method
from the actionPerformed method in its actionListener. This means that
the Driver's sendPatchRequest runs in the GUI event thread.

What *that* means is: sendPatchRequest takes a long time (like, with
getting an entire Bank), the entire GUI of JSL freezes.... which defeats
the point of having a progress-bar (which I was working on) and also
defeats the purpose of having regularly-updated "XXX bytes received"
counts in the dialog box.

On my machine, I just experimented with having SysexGetDialog start a
separate thread to call sendPatchRequest, and it worked like a charm.
GUI updates happen during lengthy (as in... a 60 seconds...) patch dump
requests.

Does anybody have any objections to my committing this to CVS?

- Joe