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Pending requests from Application.invokeLater can cause input event starvation

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    • 8
    • 7u6
    • javafx
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    • Windows

      The root cause of RT-19897 is that, on Windows at least, Runnables posted to the event queue with Application.runLater will be processed at a higher priority than input events. This leads to input event starvation in cases where there is always a pending Runnable on the queue. We have a partial solution to RT-19897 by releasing the barrier early allowing the FX application thread a short window of time to process events before posting the next runnable, but it is fragile.

      Additionally, it is the reason we cannot run in full-speed mode without some sort of periodic sleep.

      Ideally, runnables and input events would be treated at the same priority and processed in order. At the very least, we need a mechanism to ensure that we don't starve input events.

            anthony Anthony Petrov (Inactive)
            kcr Kevin Rushforth
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