java multithreading

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I am using netbeans 6.8 .If a sound file is playing, a button on the jframe wont work while the sound file is playing. The user should still be able to press the button while it is playing. I tried to find it but the codes are very complex. Use Main implements runnable{} Multithread this problem.

What havwe you've tried so far? Give some code please. – Thomas Jungblut Jul 27 '11 at 15:24 — Thomas Jungblut, Jul 27 '11 at 15:24

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 27 '11 at 15:30

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It sounds like you are playing a sound on the Event despatch thread. Any long running tasks should not be run on this since, as you've seen, it'll lock the gui.

answered Jul 27 '11 at 15:30

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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Try SwingWorker. There are Tutorial and StackOverflow question.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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answered Jul 27 '11 at 15:30

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 27 '11 at 15:35

You can either implement thread yourself or use higher level tools like

Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor().execute(command)
java.util.Timer: new Timer().schedule(task, 0)
SwingWorker (asm mentioned by @user802421

Here is how you can run task asynchronously using your own thread:

new Thread() {
    public void run() {
        // write here your code
    }
}.start();

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