Questions tagged [swingutilities]
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Java Mouse Event Right Click
On my three button mouse MouseEvent.BUTTON2= Middle Click and MouseEvent.BUTTON3 = Right Click.
Is this the case on a two button mouse?
Thanks
DD.
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Java/Swing: Obtain Window/JFrame from inside a JPanel
How can I get the JFrame in which a JPanel is living?
My current solution is to ask the panel for it's parent (and so on) until I find a Window:
Container parent = this; // this is a JPanel
do {
parent = parent.getParent();
} while (!(parent…
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Why to use SwingUtilities.invokeLater in main method?
After years of Java programming I always used to create my main() methods like this :
public static void main(String[] args)
{
runProgram();
}
But recently I studied some codes from the Web and saw this sometimes instead of the usual main()…
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What is SwingUtilities.invokeLater
Possible Duplicate:
What does SwingUtilities.invokeLater do?
SwingUtilities.invokeLater
I have seen this little piece of code hundreds of times:
public static void main(String[] args) {
javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
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Java 9 replacement for SwingUtilities3.setDelegateRepaintManager
While trying to port swing code to be compliant with the Java module system I got stuck trying to replace SwingUtilities3.setDelegateRepaintManager.
I have a component, which when any of its children requests a repaint then I need to transform the…
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Java - Difference between SwingWorker and SwingUtilities.invokeLater()
SwingWorker is used for the following purposes:
For running long-running tasks in a different thread so as to prevent the GUI from being unresponsive
For updating GUI with the results produced by the long-running task at the end of the task through…
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Best practice to start a swing application
What is the best practice way to start a java swing application? Maybe there is another way to do it.
I want to know if i have to use the SwingUtilities class to start the application (secound possibility) or not (first possibility).
public class…
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Change Font at runtime
Please is there another way how to change Font at runtime as using FontUIResource, for the whole AWT/Swing GUI, without any knowledge / interest about if there are local variables and type of JComponents
import java.awt.*;
import…
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SwingUtilites: how to return values from another thread in Java?
I am trying to make an application in Java.
To make Swing work correctly, I did this:
public static void main(String[] array){
String outerInput;
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
@Override
public void run() {
// I want…
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EventQueue.invokeLater vrs SwingUtilities.invokeLater
Can someone highlight on the differences between these two and the instances both are required?!
I have an application which uses both intercheably, but want to know if one is better than the other. Obviously they both accept Runnable object, and so…
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How to fix "(java:22494): Gdk-WARNING..."
I am writing a javafx program and I need the panel to update at a constant rate. Right now it is set to update every second. But I got this error, which is usually (but not always) followed by a glitch in the panel when the whole scene becomes…
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Access the JScrollpane in which the JTable is contained
I have a JTable inside a JScrollpane. I do not have access to the JScrollpane variable. But I have access to the JTable. Now how can I access the JScrollpane using the JTable.
For Example -> mytable.getAncestor(...) or something?
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Why should I use a separate thread to show a GUI in JAVA
This simple issue confuses me. You can display a JAVA GUI application by setting the frames' setVisible property true. But in almost all the examples I found on internet they use a separate thread to do the same thing.
They do something like…
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Java Swing main JFrame: why does SwingUtilities.getAncestorOfClass return null?
I intend to implement a Swing application which keeps all its JComponents within the main application window JFrame. It seems like clunky procedural code to give all my JPanel constructors a parameter referring to the JFrame. So some research…
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JTextArea in other JFrame display realtime console output
I have a "ConsoleFrame" which should display my console output in real-time to a JTextArea.
I redirected the output streams:
private void redirectSystemStreams() {
OutputStream out = new OutputStream() {
@Override
public void…
Christian 'fuzi' Orgler
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