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Java Swing rendering inconsistencies and flickering

I'm trying to familiarize myself with making GUIs in java and wrote a program that should move a square on the screen depending on WASD key inputs (Following an online tutorial). However, when running ...
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Need a good way to pause between programmatic GUI updates so user can see what occurred before next action [duplicate]

I've been trying to code a simple graphical Yahtzee where, once it is the computer's turn, the user can see each of up to three CPU dice rolls for a few seconds before the next is displayed. But ...
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NullPointerException on timer [duplicate]

//swing class, An object named foo(frame showing time each second) Timer timer = new Timer(); timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(new TimerTask() { @Override public void run() {...
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JOptionPane makes my program crash when I join thread

I am writing a program to rename files. Once the user selects the folder the files are processed in a thread. After the thread finishes the program closes the GUI and opens the selected folder. For ...
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Creating an efficient "Do you want to save before exiting?" tab exiting

I am creating a swing clone of Notepad and I'm trying to figure out a way to improve the "do you want to save before exiting tab part. I have a method that is called when the user wants to exit ...
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Wait for long-running operation and show popup

Is it possible to wait for a method (say METHOD1) to finish, but if it is running longer than X secs, call another method until METHOD1 returns? Some pseudocode: method1(); startCountdown(1000); // ...
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I'm currently trying to update a JTextArea thanks to threads

My project aims to integrate a terminal into a Swing App. The problem is that some blocking commands are blocking the stream. That is why I would like to read with a buffer into the Standard output ...
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Kafka messaging and GUI data exchange in java

I have an application that is required to use Kafka as the messaging system. I also have a GUI that takes user inputs. The application is set up to kick off heavy crunching when receiving a message ...
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How can I implement a method that returns a result to Event Dispatch Thread?

I have the following method: public Object someMethod(Object param) { return performLongCalculations(); } Some time consuming calculations I placed in a separate method: private Object ...
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How to deliver object to a long-running SwingWorker from the EDT?

How can the EDT communicate to an executing SwingWorker? There a lot of ways for the SwingWorker to communicate information back to the EDT - like publish/process and property changes but no defined ...
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JTextArea is not updating [duplicate]

I have a code where I'm taking input from user and after clicking on SUBMIT button it executes my logic and shows user a JTextArea on a new frame but the problem is it shows after program executes ...
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Synchronize the paint() method of a Java Canvas instance?

Basically I am running a java emulator at 60 FPS and each time the screen refreshes it draws pixels from an array and paints it to the screen. I am getting a java.util.ConcurrentModificationException ...
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Swing view blank on second start

I made a Conway's Game of Life. The first round works fine. A grid of white and black panels represent life and dead cells. The view is refreshed to display the change in every generation. However ...
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SwingWorker Thread doesn't stop action in background

My SwingWorker doesn't stop the background thread from executing when I call .cancel(true); I've tried loads of different things - running the background process on it's own thread, calling the method ...
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Is it possible to make my JFrame button to constantly prints outputs

What the program is supposed to do: Has a OK BUTTON: outputs the users time every 1000ms Has a CLOSE button: stops the OK BUTTON and have no outputs Is it possible to make my actionlistener for my ...
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