Prevent Swing GUI locking up during a background task

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The problem is, your long running task is blocking the Thread that keeps the GUI responsive.

What you will need to do is put the long running task on another thread.

Some common ways of doing this are using Timers or a SwingWorker.

The Java tutorials have lots of information regarding these things in their lesson in concurrency.

To make sure the first task finishes before the second, just put them both on the same thread. That way you won’t have to worry about keeping two different threads timed correctly.

Here is a sample implementation of a SwingWorkerFor your case:

public class YourTaskSwingWorkerSwingWorker extends SwingWorker<List<Object>, Void> {
    private List<Object> list
    public YourClassSwingWorker(List<Object> theOriginalList){
        list = theOriginalList;
    }

    @Override
    public List<Object> doInBackground() {
        // Do the first opperation on the list
        // Do the second opperation on the list

        return list;
    }

    @Override
    public void done() {
        // Update the GUI with the updated list.
    }
}

To use this code, when the event to modify the list is fired, create a new SwingWorker and tell it to start.

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