show status problem

[kohinoor2007]

Hi all,

Iam developing a client applet under java.My class extends from JApplet.

Have run into a problem in which the "showstatus" method is not displaying anything on the browser status bar.



My code is as follows:

private void loadInitialData(){

Runnable worker =new Runnable(){

public void run(){

waitUntilConnected();
try{

showStatus("STATUSMESSAGE");
//A Time consuming methid is called from here.TimeConsumingMethod();
showStatus("Ready");


}
catch(Exception error){
showError("Failed,error);

}
}
};

SwingUtilities.invokeLater(worker);

}


"loadInitialData" method is called from the "init" function of the applet. I have some restrictions,for which I have to use the runnable thread.

How can I make the "showstatus" work from within the thread....

Thanks in advance....

 

[tom62]

In JBuilder you can put a breakpoint in the applet, using JBuilder's AppletTestbed and Sun's AppletViewer. For more information, see:

http://info.borland.com/techpubs/jbuilder/jbuilder2005/webapps/applets.html

I never tried that out myself, because I'm using Eclipse.

Ciao,

Tom

 

[Diancecht]

Looks like you can do it in Eclipse by running it as an applet with the appletviewer.

Cheers,
Dian

 

[timw]

The invokeLater and invokeAndWait calls are very important in multithreaded Swing applications. Not using them when required can cause things not to work properly with regards to the graphic interface. You do need to unserstand what they do, but then that goes for a lot of Swing in general. It's not trivial.

Tim