SWT and Thread
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* Copyright (c) 1998, 2004 Jackwind Li Guojie
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*
* Created on Oct 26, 2003 2:45:03 PM by JACK
* $Id: SyncExecExample.java,v 1.1 2003/12/22 12:07:54 jackwind Exp $
*
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import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionEvent;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionListener;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Button;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
/**
* syncExec Example.
*/
public class SyncExecExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
final Display display = new Display();
Shell shell = new Shell(display);
final Runnable print = new Runnable() {
public void run() {
System.out.println("Print from thread: \t" + Thread.currentThread().getName());
}
};
final Thread applicationThread = new Thread("applicationThread") {
public void run() {
System.out.println("Hello from thread: \t" + Thread.currentThread().getName());
display.syncExec(print);
System.out.println("Bye from thread: \t" + Thread.currentThread().getName());
}
};
shell.setText("syncExec Example");
shell.setSize(300, 100);
Button button = new Button(shell, SWT.CENTER);
button.setText("Click to start");
button.setBounds(shell.getClientArea());
button.addSelectionListener(new SelectionListener() {
public void widgetDefaultSelected(SelectionEvent e) {
}
public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent e) {
applicationThread.start();
}
});
shell.open();
while(! shell.isDisposed()) {
if(! display.readAndDispatch()) {// If no more entries in event queue
display.sleep();
}
}
display.dispose();
}
}
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