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hunterge
hunterge

Reputation: 653

Initiating GUI as thread

I have a GUI class that works fine, however I have a button in that GUI class that is the supposed to open a new GUI from another class..

private void jButton1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt){

     GUI2 newGui = new GUI2();
     newGui.setVisible(true);
}

However, when the new GUI class (newGui) is called, it just appears as a see-through window. Is this becuase both GUI's can't run at the same time?

I'm now trying to open the new GUI as a thread, but I don't know how to do this!

 Thread thread = new Thread();
 thread.sleep(5000);
 thread.newGui.setVisible();

public void run();

This was my attempt, but unsurprisingly this didn't work.

Any help?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 79

Answers (2)

user529543
user529543

Reputation: 

private void jButton1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt){
    Thread thread = new Thread(){
        public void run(){
            GUI2 newGui = new GUI2();
            newGui.setVisible(true);
        }
    };  
    thread.start();
}

Upvotes: 0

Biswajit
Biswajit

Reputation: 2516

 SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable()
        {
            public void run()
            {
               GUI2 newGui = new GUI2();
               newGui.setVisible(true);
            }
        });

Upvotes: 3

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