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| Re: Appending to Text from non-UI thread [message #462120 is a reply to message #462118] |
Thu, 06 October 2005 19:38  |
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Originally posted by: richkulp.us.NO_SPAM.ibm.com
Use display.asyncExec with a runnable to update the Text.
Greg wrote:
> All,
>
> Ok I have figured out how to have a 'Run' button create a new thread (for a
> long running process) and a 'Cancel' button that does cancel the new thread
> (and it is messy). I could not seem to find any snippets or examples of
> this, being that it is one of the main reasons to use threads (responsive
> UI). But that's another email.
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> Anyway I would like to have the new thread to keep a Text field in the UI
> updated with status messages as it runs. I have tried sending the Text
> object to the thread but append gives an org.eclipse.swt.SWTException.
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Greg
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Thanks,
Rich Kulp
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