[kepler-dev] Splash screen and corresponding changes

[Kevin Ruland]

I've certainly seen many poorly written ui's with redraw bugs.  Without 
the source code, we can only rely on the documentation.   It is rather 
unfortunate that Sun recommends creating the entire UI in the event 
handler thread (note the big red footnote in 
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/threads.html)  Such 
a requirement completely eliminates the possibility of doing things like 
a splash screen.  I do hope that they cleaned this up for Mustang since 
they are releasing splash code in that release.

BTW - after I removed invokeLater completely from 
VergilApplication.main() the application rendered all three initial 
windows (splash, empty graph tableau, and welcome html) flawlessly.  
Perhaps the issues you've had were with previous releases of awt/swing.

Kevin

Edward A. Lee wrote:
> At 09:13 AM 2/14/2006, Kevin Ruland wrote:
>>  However, separate thread can construct new Swing components, but 
>> once they are displayed all interaction with the component - through 
>> display, keyboard or mouse events - must be through the event handler.
>
> I don't think this is true...
> I have seen rendering artifacts when swing components are
> constructed in other threads...
>
> Edward
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