Update JavaFX in JFXPanel while EDT is blocked

[Artem Ananiev]

On 6/18/2012 4:52 PM, Mario Torre wrote:
> Mantra for Swing programmers: never, never, ever do long running non
> ui related things in the EDT :)

That's true for any UI toolkit, and for JavaFX as well :)

Thanks,

Artem

> 2012/6/15 Werner Lehmann<lehmann at media-interactive.de>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is there a way to force a JFXPanel to update itself while the EDT is
>> blocked?
>>
>> This is my situation: on startup the Swing application shows a login screen
>> with a progress bar. This login screen is a JFXPanel and the progress bar is
>> a JavaFX control. In the background lots of initializations are going on,
>> and much of this should run on the EDT. Therefore it is executing within
>> SwingUtilties.invokeAndWait - but that also seems to block updates to the
>> JFXPanel and the progressbar is not updated.
>>
>> Maybe I can force an immediate repaint of the progressbar only? After all, I
>> am running two GUI toolkits at the same time, both with their own GUI
>> threads, so I'd like to take advantage of that...
>>
>> Thx.
>>
>> Werner
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