Re: Refreshing JDialog

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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 23:06:13 GMT

I am NOT top posting. At least not on purpose. My posts are showing
up in normal order on my newsreader. This newsgroup gets very little
traffic so perhaps it looks like top posting.

Thanks for the links but newsgroups are a place to ask all kinds of
questions. I never once asked anyone to teach me GUI from the ground
up. I just asked for some advice.

Thomas Weidenfeller wrote:
> Bruce Stemplewski wrote:
>
>> Now I want to add a progress dialog.
>>
>>
>> I assume I would create this Progress dialog in the main thread?
>>
>> Is it safe for the worker thread to update this progress dialog? Is
>> it safe for the thread to close the dialog once the work is done in
>> the thread?
>
>
> May I suggest the following:
>
> (a) You stop top-posting. The group's FAQ contains references to a
> number of resources regarding proper newsgroup behavior. You might want
> to check them out. Of course, you can ignore them, but this
> significantly reduces your chance of getting an answer here.
>
>
> (b) Please read
>
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/index.html
>
> from the first to the last page. A newsgroup is not a good substitute
> for learning a GUI toolkit. People will sooner or later get angry at you
> if you don't do your homework and learn the basics.
>
>
> (c) After (b), please at least browse through
>
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/index.html
>
> because these issues usually come up sooner or later, too.
>
>
> (d) The FAQ points to a number of TSC papers, regarding Swing's painting
> mechanism and architecture. You might want to give them a quick look,
> too. So in case you need background information you know where to find it.
>
> /Thomas
>

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