My GUI is frozen

Question

I have something I can\'t understand: my Swing GUI contains a \'play\' and \'pause\' button. I have also a static variable that defines \'ON\' and \'OFF\' states. (The main

Answer 1

You should not start long-running processes in Swing’s event handler because it will freeze your GUI, you know that now. :) Start it in a new thread. You only need to use a SwingWorker if you’re planning on manipulating the GUI from the worker thread (because Swing is not thread-safe).