Only 1 GUI thread & dialogs (was Re: 2 JavaFX applets in the same JVM)

[Jonathan Giles]

Fxexperience.com is fine for me from Australia. I recommend a ctrl-F5 to force a refresh.

-- Jonathan
Sent from a touch device. Please excuse my brevity.

On 9 July 2014 07:54:39 GMT+10:00, Richard Bair <richard.bair at oracle.com> wrote:
>Hmmm… FX Experience is running for me. Is anybody else having this
>problem?
>
>Richard
>
>On Jul 8, 2014, at 2:51 PM, ngalarneau at ABINITIO.COM wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>> 
>> My understanding of Swing was that when in a modal dialog, which
>blocked 
>> the EDT, a second EDT was fired up for the duration of the dialog to
>keep 
>> the events flowing.
>> 
>> When you say, below, that only 1 GUI thread is supported (and that
>thread 
>> is the native GUI thread), how are (will?) modal dialogs handled?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Neil
>> 
>> P.S. I've been trying to read Jonathan's article on dialogs on 
>> fxexperience.com, but haven't been able to because I get redirected
>to 
>> hosting.xmission.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From:   Stephen F Northover <steve.x.northover at oracle.com>
>> To:     Kevin Rushforth <kevin.rushforth at oracle.com>, 
>> ngalarneau at ABINITIO.COM, 
>> Cc:     openjfx-dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Date:   07/08/2014 03:41 PM
>> Subject:        Re: 2 JavaFX applets in the same JVM
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This would imply that there was more than on distinguished GUI thread
>
>> per process.  JavaFX runs in the native GUI thread by design and more
>
>> than one GUI thread is not supported in JavaFX and on some platforms 
>> (ie. Mac).
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> On 2014-07-08, 3:31 PM, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Is running 2 JavaFX applets in the same JVM supported?
>>> 
>>> No, this is not supported. RT-29969 (and the non-public RT-32321) is
>
>>> about running multiple applets from the same web page, each in their
>
>>> own JVM. By design, JavaFX runs each applet in its own VM. It is
>very 
>>> unlikely that we would ever add the ability to run more than JavaFX 
>>> applet in the same VM.
>>> 
>>> -- Kevin
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ngalarneau at ABINITIO.COM wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> What is the status of running 2 JavaFX applets in the same JVM 
>>>> (separate_jvm = false)?
>>>> When we try to load 2 applets into the same JVM we get a runtime 
>>>> error (I think it was class loader related).
>>>> 
>>>> When I searched in jira I found RT-29969 (the 2 applet test it
>refers 
>>>> to may or may not be in the same JVM) which points to RT-32321
>which 
>>>> seems to be private (it gives me an error when I try to access it).
>>>> 
>>>> Is running 2 JavaFX applets in the same JVM supported?
>>>> 
>>>> If not, is that a bug or a feature?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Neil
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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