How to tell when main() is done in swing

[Bobby Anderson]

So I am running into issues where I do not want to do certain things until my Frames main() method is complete. I.E. since the frame is still in an initializing state I want other function calls to behave a little differently. I know I know that is bad design but I didn't design the code and a re-design would be a nightmare at this point.

So I have some class that derives from JFrame and in it has a main to run.

public class MyFrame extends JFrame {
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.
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   public static void main(Sting[] args) {
      MyFrame frame = new MyFrame();
      // Do some stuff
      frame.pack();
      frame.setVisible(true);
   }
}

So when I am doing other things once my frame is running can I call something on the MyFrame class to see if the main has completed?

If I cannot I supposed I could set a simple variable in MyFrame like isInitializing to true at the beginning of the main and set it to false at the end of my main. I just didn't know if there was something already built in, no need to reinvent the wheel.

If anyone else has any ideas on how to solve a problem like this i welcome you thoughts.

Thanks,
Billy

[Maneesh Godbole]

Recommended reading
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/doc-files/AWTThreadIssues.html
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/index.html