org.tentackle.swing

Class WorkerThread

java.lang.Object

java.lang.Thread

org.tentackle.swing.WorkerThread

All Implemented Interfaces:

Runnable

public class WorkerThread
extends Thread

A worker thread.

The thread will dispose a dialog if terminated.

The specified Runnable must either monitor whether the thread got interrupt()ed by checking Thread.isInterrupted() or override Thread.interrupt() and terminate the thread gracefully.

Author:

harald

See Also:

WorkerDialog

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

Thread.State, Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
WorkerThread(Runnable worker, boolean modal, String title) Creates a worker thread using an WorkerDialog.
WorkerThread(Runnable runnable, boolean modal, String title, JDialog workerDialog) Creates a worker thread.
WorkerThread(Runnable worker, String title) Creates a worker thread using a modal WorkerDialog and a given title. This is the default case.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
JDialog	getWorkerDialog() Gets the worker dialog.
void	run()
void	start()
void	startAndWait() Starts the workerthread and waits until the modal worker dialog is closed.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, clone, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

WorkerThread

public WorkerThread(Runnable runnable,
                    boolean modal,
                    String title,
                    JDialog workerDialog)

Creates a worker thread.

Parameters:

runnable - the runnable for this thread

modal - true if dialog should be set to modal

title - the dialog's title, null if leave unchanged

workerDialog - the dialog that will be disposed when thread terminates, null if WorkerDialog

WorkerThread

public WorkerThread(Runnable worker,
                    boolean modal,
                    String title)

Creates a worker thread using an WorkerDialog.

Parameters:

worker - what's to do in the run-method?

modal - true if dialog should be set to modal

title - the dialog's title, null if leave unchanged

WorkerThread

public WorkerThread(Runnable worker,
                    String title)

Creates a worker thread using a modal WorkerDialog and a given title.
This is the default case.

Parameters:

worker - what's to do in the run-method?

title - the dialog's title, null if leave unchanged

Method Detail

getWorkerDialog

public JDialog getWorkerDialog()

Gets the worker dialog.

Returns:

the worker dialog (usually a WorkerDialog)

run

public void run()

Overridden to dispose the dialog.

Specified by:

run in interface Runnable

Overrides:

run in class Thread

start

public void start()

Overridden to show the dialog. The dialog will be shown by invokeLater. This allows the method to return immediately even if the dialog is modal.

Overrides:

start in class Thread

startAndWait

public void startAndWait()

Starts the workerthread and waits until the modal worker dialog is closed.