Swing application screen becoming gray

[madhoriya22]

Hi,
I am having this problem in my swing application. On the screen there is a button catalog, sometimes(not every time) when i press that button the next screen comes is gray and it don't display any data. What can be the possible reason for it ?

[JosAH]

Hi,
I am having this problem in my swing application. On the screen there is a button catalog, sometimes(not every time) when i press that button the next screen comes is gray and it don't display any data. What can be the possible reason for it ?

Almost anything can be the reason but my guess is a thread problem: most
likely you're doing all you processing in the AWT dispatch thread so that it
doesn't have time anymore to do what it was made for: draw your components.
For starters have a look at the SwingUtilities class that can start small
threads for you that are not in the way of the dispatch thread.

kind regards,

Jos

[madhoriya22]

Almost anything can be the reason but my guess is a thread problem: most
likely you're doing all you processing in the AWT dispatch thread so that it
doesn't have time anymore to do what it was made for: draw your components.
For starters have a look at the SwingUtilities class that can start small
threads for you that are not in the way of the dispatch thread.

kind regards,

Jos

Hi,
Thanks ! But this problem is not occuring everytime. It occurs seldom only. My application is vast retail application. Can this be a memory issue or something else apart from coding problem ?

[r035198x]

Hi,
Thanks ! But this problem is not occuring everytime. It occurs seldom only. My application is vast retail application. Can this be a memory issue or something else apart from coding problem ?

Are you using Jos' suggestion above already then?
Threading related problems are like that sometimes. i.e Show up sometimes, because threading is partly platform dependent.

[madhoriya22]

Are you using Jos' suggestion above already then?
Threading related problems are like that sometimes. i.e Show up sometimes, because threading is partly platform dependent.

Hi,
Here is the code snippet of my class.
This is how I am enabling the button at one place

if (reviewMessagesController.getModel() != null) {
				SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
					public void run() {
						if (customerVO == null) {
							InvoiceController.this.fldCustomer.requestFocus();
						} else if (customerVO != null && customerVO.isAuthorizedBuyersOnly()
								&& invoicePanel.cbAuthorizedBuyer.getSelectedIndex() < 1) {
							invoicePanel.cbAuthorizedBuyer.requestFocus();
						} else {
							invoicePanel.btnPartsPro.setEnabled(true);//This is the button giving problem
							invoicePanel.btnRecallSavedInvoice.setEnabled(false);
							invoicePanel.btnMessage.setEnabled(false);
							invoiceLineEntryController.setPartNumberEnabled(true);
							invoicePanel.btnRecallSavedInvoice.dispatchEvent(
								new KeyEvent(invoicePanel.btnRecallSavedInvoice, KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED,
								new Date().getTime(), 0, KeyEvent.VK_TAB, '\t'));
						}
					}
				});

This is how I am enabling the button at another place

SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
			public void run() {
				if (customerVO == null) {
					InvoiceController.this.fldCustomer.requestFocus();
				} else if (customerVO != null && customerVO.isAuthorizedBuyersOnly()
						&& invoicePanel.cbAuthorizedBuyer.getSelectedIndex() < 1) {
					invoicePanel.cbAuthorizedBuyer.requestFocus();
				} else {
					invoicePanel.btnPartsPro.setEnabled(true);//This is the button givining problem
					invoicePanel.btnMessage.setEnabled(false);
					invoicePanel.btnRecallSavedInvoice.setEnabled(false);
					invoiceLineEntryController.setPartNumberEnabled(true);
					invoicePanel.btnRecallSavedInvoice.dispatchEvent(
						new KeyEvent(invoicePanel.btnRecallSavedInvoice, KeyEvent.KEY_PRESSED,
						new Date().getTime(), 0, KeyEvent.VK_TAB, '\t'));
				}
			}
		});

and this is how I am performing action on the button

else if (source.getName().equals(InvoicePanel.BTN_PARTS_PRO)) {
		 if (isPreferencePPSE() && ClientApplicationContext.getClientApplicationContext().getPpseCatalogInUse()) {
		 logger.debug("actionPerformed: CatalogButton Pushed: isPreferencePPSE/calling openPPSE");
		 openPPSE();
		 } else {logger.debug("actionPerformed: CatalogButton: preference is NOT PPSE");
			 if (!CatalogBL.verifyDVDServices()) {
				 clientApplicationContext.getMessageMgr().showMessage(invoicePanel, "2208");
				 return;
			 }
			 invoicePanel.setVisible(false);
			 clientApplicationContext.getPointOfSaleEventDispatcher().fireCatalogingOpened(
				 new CatalogEvent(this, null));
		 }

Can this code give this kind of problem ? Please give ur valuable suggestions .

Thanks and regards,
Amit.