Re: Potential solution for conversion from AWT to Swing

Posted by Colin Poczatek on Dec 07, 2009; 1:41pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-development-involvement-contributions-tp3690030p3690082.html

For what it's worth (and if I'm remembering correctly) the SwingWorker
class is part of Java 1.6, and there's a Sun backport to Java 1.5.
They're not compatible though.  We use the 1.6 version in our plugin.

Collin

> I have solved this in other GUI applications I work on by using a specific
> threading library, Foxtrot(BSD license), that enables the use of both
> synchronous and asynchronous threads in flexible ways. SwingWorker can also be
> used to prevent the GUI freeze, but is not as flexible (license?).
>  



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