Re: Doing setCursor in a button callback?

Paul Tomblin wrote:
> I've got a button callback that does some complicated processing, and at
> one part is does a setCursor to turn on a busy cursor, and then later
> clears it.  Most of the time, we don't actually see the cursor change. 
Am
> I right in thinking that the complicated processing needs to be put in
> another thread, with the cursor changes done in
> "SwingUtiliities.invokeLater" calls?
> 
> (This is Java 1.6 on Linux, by the way.)
> 
You are absolutely right.  Never block the EDT for more than a few 
milliseconds if you can help it.

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