refresh label awt

[RC]

How can I 'refresh' the display of an awt label to show that a value has changed.
I monitor a socket an when a value changes I want the screen to update.

thanks

[Kent]

RC,

The simple answer is to invoke setText() on the label. This causes repaint()
to be called on the label.

By the sound of things, though, you are monitoring the socket in a separate
thread (ie. not the GUI thread)?

If so, you will need to use the static method invokeAndWait or invokeLater
in the SwingUtilities class. These are provided to allow non-GUI threads
to modify the GUI because it is not thread-safe to do so directly.

Here is how you can use this method:

SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
//change the label text here calling setText()
}
});

Regards,
Kent


"RC" <java.@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
>How can I 'refresh' the display of an awt label to show that a value has
changed.
>I monitor a socket an when a value changes I want the screen to update.
>
>thanks

[Kent]

Whoops, just read your title and realised you're using AWT. Everything I said
still applies except that calling setText() on the label does not automatically
update the display (not from the source code I just looked at anyway).

So call setText() and then repaint(). That should do it.

Regards,
Kent


"Kent" <kb@essential.com.au> wrote:
>
>RC,
>
>The simple answer is to invoke setText() on the label. This causes repaint()
>to be called on the label.
>
>By the sound of things, though, you are monitoring the socket in a separate
>thread (ie. not the GUI thread)?
>
>If so, you will need to use the static method invokeAndWait or invokeLater
>in the SwingUtilities class. These are provided to allow non-GUI threads
>to modify the GUI because it is not thread-safe to do so directly.
>
>Here is how you can use this method:
>
>SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(new Runnable() {
> public void run() {
> //change the label text here calling setText()
> }
>});
>
>Regards,
>Kent
>
>
>"RC" <java.@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>
>>How can I 'refresh' the display of an awt label to show that a value has
>changed.
>>I monitor a socket an when a value changes I want the screen to update.
>>
>>thanks
>