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

This is a pretty straightforward reason: while Java is working on your time-consuming process, it isn't able to update the GUI. Solution: run the time-consuming process in a separate thread. There are a bunch of ways to program that, and it would probably depend somewhat on how your program is written.