Can a Swing GUI be used in a direct-rendering game?

[CommanderKeith]

Sun's Scott Violet of the Swing team just gave a concrete response here:

http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=121654&#121654

"Swing isn't thread safe, and is not meant to be used off the EDT. Trying
to do so otherwise will cause all sorts of problems.

-Scott"

java-gaming.org is pushing the boundaries as usual! 

[beowulf03809]

I liked your final comment in the thread...

"If Swing should not be painted outside the EDT, then maybe The Java Tutorial http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/extra/fullscreen/rendering.html should be changed so that it didn't contain..."

[CommanderKeith]

I'm actually glad that comment was in the tutorial or otherwise I wouldn't have even tried to get Swing working   It gave me the impetus to investigate, and thanks to Luke for posting the SynchronizedEventQueue solution as well as everyone else's help, it works! 

Games published by our own members! Check 'em out!

[CommanderKeith]

For those looking for an example of all this, see:


http://www.java-gaming.org/forums/index.php?topic=15140.msg120376#msg120376


Keith

[Corale]

Invaluable thread #1 on this topic, thanks guys for putting this effort into it