Threading in Swing two ways?

[mandlar suurla]

K i have seen like many people have been using the normal way of implementing the threading(extending from Thread or implement Runnable). But there's also the way to use SwingWorker. Which is to right use ?

[Rob Spoor]

SwingWorker makes the work easier sometimes, with its distinct steps: publish / process for intermediate results, and done when the job is finished.

Still, anything you can do with SwingWorker you can also do yourself with "regular" threads. You'll just have to do more work yourself.

[mandlar suurla]

Thank you for quick replay, but off curse this isnt my last question . There are also SwingUtilites.invokeLater and SwingUtilites.invokeAndWait, which i know doesn't make new thread, so i dont understand their use in Swing.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Originally posted by mandlar suurla:
Thank you for quick replay, but off curse this isnt my last question . There are also SwingUtilites.invokeLater and SwingUtilites.invokeAndWait, which i know doesn't make new thread, so i dont understand their use in Swing.

These methods execute a Runnable directly on the event thread; they're intended for short actions that won't delay event processing. In contrast, SwingWorker is for things that will take a long time, but will interact with the GUI occasionally during that time.