org.systemsbiology.mzxmlviewer.utilities
Class SwingWorker

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.systemsbiology.mzxmlviewer.utilities.SwingWorker

public abstract class SwingWorker
extends java.lang.Object

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Constructor Summary
SwingWorker()
          Start a thread that will call the construct method and then exit.
 
Method Summary
abstract  java.lang.Object construct()
          Compute the value to be returned by the get method.
 void finished()
          Called on the event dispatching thread (not on the worker thread) after the construct method has returned.
 java.lang.Object get()
          Return the value created by the construct method.
protected  java.lang.Object getValue()
          Get the value produced by the worker thread, or null if it hasn't been constructed yet.
 void interrupt()
          A new method that interrupts the worker thread.
 void start()
          Start the worker thread.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

SwingWorker

public SwingWorker()
Start a thread that will call the construct method and then exit.

Method Detail

getValue

protected java.lang.Object getValue()
Get the value produced by the worker thread, or null if it hasn't been constructed yet.


construct

public abstract java.lang.Object construct()
Compute the value to be returned by the get method.


finished

public void finished()
Called on the event dispatching thread (not on the worker thread) after the construct method has returned.


interrupt

public void interrupt()
A new method that interrupts the worker thread. Call this method to force the worker to stop what it's doing.


get

public java.lang.Object get()
Return the value created by the construct method. Returns null if either the constructing thread or the current thread was interrupted before a value was produced.

Returns:
the value created by the construct method

start

public void start()
Start the worker thread.



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