Name: rmT116609 Date: 04/15/2004


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
Add methods
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(Object target, Method method, Object params)
SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(Object target, Method method, Object params)

to javax.swing.SwingUtilities

JUSTIFICATION :
InvokeLater and InwokeAndWait is really really usefull for GUI-applications that have to be multithreaded (like Corba or what I'm doing: playing several videos in a synchronized way throug windows media player).

But all over the code I have Runnable r = new Runnable(){ ... };
It is quite messy. It would be easier to be able to use invokeLater without having to define a zillion runnables.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
The behaviour would be that the method gets called on the object, just like you would do with a runnable (except you don't have to inline an anonymous class declaration).

---------- BEGIN SOURCE ----------
/* The problem applies to many examples, here is one case.
DirectShow / windows media player 9 controller methods MUST be called from the thread that instantiated the player */

String m_url;
NativeWindowsPlayer m_nativeplayer;
BufferedImage m_videoframe;
volatile boolean m_playingToFirstFrame = false;

void realizePlayer(){
  createNativePlayer(m_url); // not shown
  playToFirstFrame();
}

public void play() { m_nativeplayer.play();}
public void stop() { m_nativeplayer.stop();}

void playToFirstFrame(){
  m_playingToFirstFrame = true;
  m_nativeplayer.play();
}

public void receiveFrameBufferCallback(long time, int[] imgbuffer) {
  if(m_playingToFirstFrame){
    m_playingToFirstFrame = false;

    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(this,
                              getClass().getDeclaredMethod("stop", null),
                              null);

   }
  // update image buffer and repaint
  // ...
}
---------- END SOURCE ----------

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
You can always get around this by using new Runnable(){ ... }
(Incident Review ID: 217482)
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