[java-dev] Re: Gui progress bar in mxj?

On 3 Aug 2007, at 13:07, Owen Green wrote:

> It's important that AWT/Swing things happen in the AWT event  
> thread, not the max/mxj thread (due to cocoa /carbon squabbling on  
> the mac), otherwise lockups and other badness ensues. Liberal use  
> of SwingUtilities.invokeLater() is the key.

If all you want is a progress bar, why not just create a single-row,  
non-clickable, multiSlider in the MAX world and feed it from your MXJ  
object?

So far, any time I've needed some graphical interaction with an MXJ  
object, I've just used MAX and/or JavaScript GUI to build the widgets.

	-- N.


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