A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
In 1.5, print functionality was added to JTable. By a simple call to JTable.print, a print dialog is displayed to the user, and then a modal status dialog is displayed for the duration of the printing.

JTable has a private inner class, ThreadSafePrintable, that allows a lot of this to take place. Only a few lines of ThreadSafePrintable are JTable-specific -- it could very easily be made generic. The same is true for the actual code of the print method. The creation and display of the dialog, as well as the threaded printing, could easily be made generic enough to work with any printable.

I propose that the functionality in JTable.print and JTable.ThreadSafePrintable be moved/replicated and made available for any component that is Printable. This would allow a display of a modal status dialog for any Printable.

JUSTIFICATION :
This would be a great enhancement that would stop people from having to copy (or write) hundreds of lines of code to have thread-safe printing that displays a status dialog.


CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
Copy the code from JTable.ThreadSafePrintable into its own public class and make minimal changes to make it generic. Also copy the code from JTable.print() and make some changes to use it to create the modal status dialog and to do the thread-safe printing for any Printable.
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