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

[Rib R. <ri...@gm...>]

Sounds good to me.

On 5/13/05, Joe Emenaker <jo...@em...> wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Does anybody have any objections to my committing this to CVS?
>=20
> - Joe
>=20
>=20
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