Re: [Jython-users] Threads

[dman <ds...@ri...>]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 12:20:38PM +0200, Kevin McNamee wrote:
| Thanks, your example was very useful.
| 
| If I call MyThread().run() and I am not in the event-dispatching thread,
| everything works fine. I can do long tasks and call invokeLater to update
| the GUI with each result.
| 
| If I call MyThread().run() when a button is pressed, then
| isEventDispatchThread() returns true and the updater function is called
| directly. This is because button events are handled in the
| event-dispatching thread, but the result is that the GUI is not updated
| until the button event finishes :(
| 
| What I am doing wrong?

You want to /start/, not /run/ MyThread from the button event handler.
When you start() a thread it actually creates the new thread, then
runs it.  The run() method doesn't return until your long work is
done, but start() returns immediately.  

HTH,
-D