org.tentackle.ui
Class FormEventQueue

java.lang.Object
  java.awt.EventQueue
      org.tentackle.ui.FormEventQueue

public class FormEventQueue
extends EventQueue

A replacement for the standard event queue providing support for dropping key events a given amount of time.

Author:

harald

Field Summary

static long

dropKeyEventDefaultTime default milliseconds to drop keyevents for FormError, etc...

Constructor Summary

FormEventQueue()
Creates an event queue.

Method Summary

void	dropKeyEvents() Drops all key events so far up to a given time from now.
void	dropKeyEvents(long millis) Drops all key events so far up to a given time from now. Useful for dialogs to prevent accidently ack (usually ENTER) by user.
AWTEvent	getNextEvent() Removes an event from the EventQueue and returns it.

Methods inherited from class java.awt.EventQueue

dispatchEvent, getCurrentEvent, getMostRecentEventTime, invokeAndWait, invokeLater, isDispatchThread, peekEvent, peekEvent, pop, postEvent, push

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

dropKeyEventDefaultTime

public static long dropKeyEventDefaultTime

default milliseconds to drop keyevents for FormError, etc...

Constructor Detail

FormEventQueue

public FormEventQueue()

Creates an event queue.

Method Detail

dropKeyEvents

public void dropKeyEvents(long millis)

Drops all key events so far up to a given time from now.
Useful for dialogs to prevent accidently ack (usually ENTER) by user.

Parameters:

millis - the time in milliseconds to add the current system time

dropKeyEvents

public void dropKeyEvents()

Drops all key events so far up to a given time from now.

See Also:

dropKeyEventDefaultTime

getNextEvent

public AWTEvent getNextEvent()
                      throws InterruptedException

Removes an event from the EventQueue and returns it. This method will block until an event has been posted by another thread.

Overridden to drop keyboard events.

Overrides:

getNextEvent in class EventQueue

Returns:

the next AWTEvent

Throws:

InterruptedException - if any thread has interrupted this thread