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

[Kevin Rushforth]

JavaFX does the same thing for a blocking, modal dialog. It done using 
another thread, though.

-- Kevin


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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