[SOLVED] Netbeans Desktop App & JProgressBar

[SebScoFr]

Hi everyone,

I've been looking for solutions for my problem on the internet for hours without any success so I hope someone here can help me.

I'm working on an encryption program on Java implementing the RSA algorithm.
I'm using a NetBeans Desktop Application to develop this application.

Since the encryption process might take a while depending on which files the user wants to encrypt, I'm using a Task that realizes the process in another thread within the doInBackground() method.

Everything works fine except that I'd like to display the process progress in the progress bar provided by default in the desktop application. But for some reasons, nothing happens

Here is the code:

Generated by Netbeans, no need to modify it (?)

public class RSAProject extends FrameView {
    
    public RSAProject(SingleFrameApplication app) {
        super(app);
 
        initComponents();
 
        // status bar initialization - message timeout, idle icon and busy animation, etc
        ResourceMap resourceMap = getResourceMap();
        int messageTimeout = resourceMap.getInteger("StatusBar.messageTimeout");
        messageTimer = new Timer(messageTimeout, new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                statusMessageLabel.setText("");
            }
        });
        messageTimer.setRepeats(false);
        int busyAnimationRate = resourceMap.getInteger("StatusBar.busyAnimationRate");
        for (int i = 0; i < busyIcons.length; i++) {
            busyIcons[i] = resourceMap.getIcon("StatusBar.busyIcons[" + i + "]");
        }
        busyIconTimer = new Timer(busyAnimationRate, new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                busyIconIndex = (busyIconIndex + 1) % busyIcons.length;
                statusAnimationLabel.setIcon(busyIcons[busyIconIndex]);
            }
        });
        idleIcon = resourceMap.getIcon("StatusBar.idleIcon");
        statusAnimationLabel.setIcon(idleIcon);
        progressBar.setVisible(true);
 
        // connecting action tasks to status bar via TaskMonitor
        TaskMonitor taskMonitor = new TaskMonitor(getApplication().getContext());
        taskMonitor.addPropertyChangeListener(new java.beans.PropertyChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void propertyChange(java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent evt) {
                String propertyName = evt.getPropertyName();
                System.out.println(propertyName);
                if ("started".equals(propertyName)) {
                    if (!busyIconTimer.isRunning()) {
                        statusAnimationLabel.setIcon(busyIcons[0]);
                        busyIconIndex = 0;
                        busyIconTimer.start();
                    }
                    progressBar.setIndeterminate(true);
                } else if ("done".equals(propertyName)) {
                    busyIconTimer.stop();
                    statusAnimationLabel.setIcon(idleIcon);
                    progressBar.setValue(0);
                } else if ("message".equals(propertyName)) {
                    String text = (String)(evt.getNewValue());
                    statusMessageLabel.setText((text == null) ? "" : text);
                    messageTimer.restart();
                } else if ("progress".equals(propertyName)) {
                    int value = (Integer)(evt.getNewValue());
                    progressBar.setIndeterminate(false);
                    progressBar.setValue(value);
                }
            }
        });
    }

The button which start the Task

private void startButtonActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
    this.startEncrypt().execute;
}

And the Task itself

    @Action
    public Task startEncrypt() {
        return new StartEncryptTask(getApplication());
    }
 
    private class StartEncryptTask extends Task<Void, Void> {
        StartEncryptTask(org.jdesktop.application.Application app) {
            super(app);
        }
        
        @Override
        protected Void doInBackground() {
            try {
                //specific code for encryption
            }
            catch(java.lang.Exception e) {
                //specific code for exceptions
            }
 
            return null;
        }
        
        protected void succeeded() {
        }
    }

Theorically the TaskMonitor should react when a new Task occurs
I must be missing something

Any help will be more than welcome!

-Sebastien

[Nicholas Jordan]

Okay, so how do we determine how long RSA will take on this:

    final java.lang.String[][] RevisedProgram=
    {
        {"class HellWorldApp extends HellWorld"},
        {"{"},
        {"    public HelloWorldApp()"},
        {"    {"},
        {"         super();//"},
        {"    }"},
        {"    // main method, standard entry point for system to lauch application."},
        {"    public static void main(String[] args)"},
        {"    {"},
        {"        System.out.println(\"With blinding applied, the decryption time is no longer correlated to the value of the input ciphertext and so the timing attack fails.\"); // Display string."},
        {"    }"},
        {"}"},
    };

Not being difficult, it is just that I do not see how we can set some upper bound for task completion ...

[SebScoFr]

Well I'm not sure what you're talking about but I though that this code generated by netbeans for a Desktop Application should follow the task progress and update the progress bar:

TaskMonitor taskMonitor = new TaskMonitor(getApplication().getContext());
        taskMonitor.addPropertyChangeListener(new java.beans.PropertyChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void propertyChange(java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent evt) {
                String propertyName = evt.getPropertyName();
                System.out.println(propertyName);
                if ("started".equals(propertyName)) {
                    if (!busyIconTimer.isRunning()) {
                        statusAnimationLabel.setIcon(busyIcons[0]);
                        busyIconIndex = 0;
                        busyIconTimer.start();
                    }
                    progressBar.setIndeterminate(true);
                } else if ("done".equals(propertyName)) {
                    busyIconTimer.stop();
                    statusAnimationLabel.setIcon(idleIcon);
                    progressBar.setValue(0);
                } else if ("message".equals(propertyName)) {
                    String text = (String)(evt.getNewValue());
                    statusMessageLabel.setText((text == null) ? "" : text);
                    messageTimer.restart();
                } else if ("progress".equals(propertyName)) {
                    int value = (Integer)(evt.getNewValue());
                    progressBar.setIndeterminate(false);
                    progressBar.setValue(value);
                }
            }
        });

I might be wrong, and if it's the case, any idea how to do it?

Thanks

[SebScoFr]

The task wasn't actually recognized by the TaskMonitor, here is what I've done

The button which start the Task

private void startButtonActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
    this.startEncrypt();
}

And the Task

    @Action
    public Task startEncrypt() {
        StartEncryptTask task = new StartEncryptTask(org.jdesktop.application.Application.getInstance());

        ApplicationContext C = getApplication().getContext();
        TaskMonitor M = C.getTaskMonitor();
        TaskService S = C.getTaskService();
        S.execute(task);
        M.setForegroundTask(task);

        return task;
    }
 
    private class StartEncryptTask extends Task<Void, Void> {
        StartEncryptTask(org.jdesktop.application.Application app) {
            super(app);
        }
        
        @Override
        protected Void doInBackground() {
            try {
                //specific code for encryption
            }
            catch(java.lang.Exception e) {
                //specific code for exceptions
            }
 
            return null;
        }
        
        protected void succeeded() {
        }
    }

Hope that can help