How to solve this problem (GUI strucking)

Hi,

I am implemening one GUI application, i have a general problem;

one window of the applivation performs some operations, it takes 5 min time.
During this 5min time; the total application was strucking and i can not any other task in that window.

I appreciate your advices to come out of this problem.

Thank you,

Regards,

You need a SwingWorker thread to do the job which takes upto 5 minutes.

http://www.osc.edu/~watts/tutorials/gridview/gui-howto/gui-threads.html

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/threads/threads2.html

Thank you, and i am looking in that;

Reagards,

Hi, I have a question about the previous answer.
Is the swingworker a thread or it there are any differences?
In the previous example is the swingworker class more appropriate than a single thread and why?
P.S.:I have to admit that I haven't take a look at the swingworker class, I'm just try to identify if I have to do it

[ January 13, 2006: Message edited by: hartzoua hartzoua ]

Originally posted by hartzoua hartzoua:

Is the swingworker a thread or it there are any differences?

SwingWorker is simply a convenience wrapper around the Thread class. It frees you from having to implement Runnable/extend Thread, which may be inconvenient when you are dealing with lots of GUI classes. You could use either a thread or SwingWorker to solve a problem like the one above. Which one you use is more a stylistic decision than a technical one.
Have a look at the How To Use Threads In Swing page from the Java Tutorial for some examples.