Updating a ProgressMonitor within a JDesktopPane

[AlistairMonkeyFinger]

Hi,

i'm having problems updating a ProgressMonitor in my application when a job is kicked off. I've created the ProgressMonitor

ProgressMonitor pm = new ProgressMonitor (jdp,"Updating table","Please wait..",0,ct.getRowCount() );

where jdp is a JDesktopPane. Then, inside a loop i call

pm.setProgress(i);

where i is the loop counter.

The ProgressMonitor box is displayed but the contents aren't fully displayed until the loop has finished. I've tried calling a variety of different update, repaint, validate etc methods inside my loop but cannot get the ProgressMoinitor to display properly. Has anyone any ideas ?

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Thanks

Alistair

 

[jnicho02]

you'll need to use a thread to update the monitor...SwingWorker is useful for this....the javadoc for ProgressMonitor links to a tutorial on the Sun site.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/progress.html#monitors

Jeremy Nicholson, Director of

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