netbeans: changing an object from within an action

[flok]

Hi,

In netbeans I created a form with a button and a text-area.
Now when I press the button I would like to do some calculations in the text-area.
This works so far that the calculations-code is invoked but the form is only refreshed after the button-action-method is finished.
I got a:

   private javax.swing.JTextArea output;

and from within:

   private void jButton1MouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) { }

I call:

   output.append("some text");

And only after jButton1MouseClicked is finished, this text is shown in the form.
How can I fix that? I tried to call repaint() after each output.append() but that didn't help.

[Fubarable]

You don't give enough information for anyone to know why you are having this problem. Perhaps you are tying up the EDT within your actionPerformed method, but without my crystal ball, I'm only guessing.

Luckily my magic 8 ball still works, and it says: look at using a SwingWorker object.

If this doesn't help, you may wish to provide more details and code, enough necessary to answer this question.

[flok]

You don't give enough information for anyone to know why you are having this problem. Perhaps you are tying up the EDT within your actionPerformed method, but without my crystal ball, I'm only guessing.
Luckily my magic 8 ball still works, and it says: look at using a SwingWorker object.
If this doesn't help, you may wish to provide more details and code, enough necessary to answer this question.

Yes! The swingworker fixed it!
Put my code as an anonymous class in the swingworker. Then from there it updates my textarea object.

Thanks a lot!

[Fubarable]

Cool. I guess I'll have to hang on to that magic 8 ball!