invokeAndWait

[Tom Eugelink]

In my opinion you are totally right. I see JFXtras as a project for anything that is not part of JavaFX. The labs is a big playground where all code is dumped in a single project, but when matured, controls and core jars can and should be split off. There was this blog some 2 weeks ago that contained some interesting utility class and I asked there too if he like to move that into JFXtras (or allow me to do that).

TomE



On 2013-01-02 11:08, Hendrik Ebbers wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> in my opinion JFXtras is like SwingX and provides more than only new controls. At the moment there are some color utilities and animation classes next to the controls. I asked myself whats the best place for my method. Because I need it in DataFX I commited it there. This prevented DataFX from a new dependency to jfxtras. But I think it's not wrong to add such a method to JFXtras. Can I see your invokeAndWait code. We can add the best / cleanest implementation to JFXtras. Maybe JFXtras is splitted (jfxtras-core, jfxtras-controls, etc.) in future. Than DataFX can depend on it and the duplicate code will be deleted.
>
> Hendrik
>
> Am 02. Januar 2013 um 10:28 schrieb Tom Schindl <tom.schindl at bestsolution.at>:
>
> I think the reason Richard provides is a weak one. I also have
> situations where a syncAndWait is needed (I need it because I have to
> implement an API I don't control).
>
> Not providing an utility method because someone could do bad things with
> it is not a good strategy. Yes concurrent programming is not easy and
> you'd better know what you are doing else don't do it!
>
> Not providing utilities leads to is code duplication you see now all
> over the place, I have one in my library, Hendrik has one well and most
> likely many others. Do jfx-extras also holds utilities or is it simply
> about controls? Could we add such a method there?
>
> Tom
>
> Am 02.01.13 09:23, schrieb Hendrik Ebbers:
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Am 02. Januar 2013 um 05:12 schrieb Gerrit Grunwald <han.solo at muenster.de>:
>>
>> Hi Hendrik,
>>
>> there is a comment from Richard about it that could be found here:
>>
>> https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2370263
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Gerrit
>>
>> Am 01.01.2013 um 23:48 schrieb Hendrik Ebbers <hendrik.ebbers at me.com>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I created a "invokeAndWait" method for JavaFX that is a equivalent of
>> SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(...). It will be part of DataFX. You can
>> read about it in my blog:
>> http://www.guigarage.com/2013/01/invokeandwait-for-javafx/
>>
>> I ask myself why there is no "invokeAndWait" method in
>> javafx.application.Platform. Is there any good reason? In swing I use
>> "invokeAndWait" often and so I think it is also important for JavaFX.
>>
>> - Hendrik
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