Java progress bar to work simultaneously work with application code

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I am a beginner in java .So please let me know how can i simultaneously run the progress bar and my application code together.In other words i want to make my progressbar to increment as long as my application code is doing some processing.Please elaborate it with code. What i think is that i have to add two threads simultaneously.One thread updating the progressbar thread but i am not sure whether its the right way or not. i have written this code for incrementing progress bar (hard coded)

       class ProgressMonitor implements Runnable {

    public void run() {
        jProgressBar1.setStringPainted(true);
        //run untill 100% complete
        while (progress < 100) {
            //update the progressbar
            jProgressBar1.setValue(++progress);
            jProgressBar1.repaint();
            try {

                //Sleep for .25 second
                Thread.sleep(250);
            } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
            }
        }

    }

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 11 '12 at 14:39

The problem is basically that the long running task blocks the Event Dispatch Thread that updates the GUI. One solution is to do the work in a SwingWorker.

An abstract class to perform lengthy GUI-interaction tasks in a background thread. ..

See also the Concurrency in Swing lesson of the tutorial for more details.

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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The solution is indeed to use a SwingWorker. If you want to use in in combination with a JProgressBar, I would recommend to take a look at the JProgressBar tutorial, which has an example using SwingWorker in combination with JProgressBar. Or you do a quick search on this site and find examples like this one

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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answered Feb 12 '12 at 10:40

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

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You can learn more about this and SwingWorker in this topic:

Manage GUI and EDT in a multi-task application

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answered Feb 11 '12 at 14:53

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Java progress bar to work simultaneously work with application code

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