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daemon54
daemon54

Reputation: 1105

Multithreading in SWT?

I'm working on a SWT application for creating a automatic testing tool. I need to implement multithreading and I've heard Eclipse jobs Api can help me with it. I couldn't find it with my eclipse bundle. Can anyone point me to the location where I could download it or if you have any other solution, please do tell me. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 296

Answers (2)

daemon54
daemon54

Reputation: 1105

Thanks to Greg, I've realized jobs cannot be used for SWT application. As an alternative, I've used

Thread.start() => Creates a background thread

Display.getDefault().asyncExec(new Runnable() {}) => A background thread cannot update UI,so this is used

Ref:- Run thread in background in java How to update JFrame Label within a Thread? - Java http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t43753.html

I hope this would help someone who are looking for multithreading solutions in SWT.

Upvotes: 1

greg-449
greg-449

Reputation: 111142

The Eclipse job classes are in org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs. The main class to submit a job is Job.

Usually used by doing:

Job job = new MyJob();
job.schedule();

where MyJob is a class which extends Job. You implement the run method to do your work.

See http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fapi%2Forg%2Feclipse%2Fcore%2Fruntime%2Fjobs%2Fpackage-summary.html for a description of the various classes

Also see http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.isv%2Freference%2Fapi%2Forg%2Feclipse%2Fcore%2Fruntime%2Fjobs%2Fclass-use%2FJob.html for a longer overview

Upvotes: 1

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