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JFrame repaint() and revalidate() only updating when window is resized on Mac os

I use this class for my school app projects. It is how I set the application up and it extends JFrame and implements Runnable. Now whenever I use this in school on a Windows computer and everything works and the screen updates, but at home on a Mac it doesn't. I use Eclipse neon with JDK 1.8.0_101
Please help me out, I can't test any projects at home cause of this.
import java.awt.Graphics;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public abstract class GUIApplication extends JFrame implements Runnable{
private Screen currentScreen;
//no main, cant instentiate an abstract class
public GUIApplication(){
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
int x=40;
int y=40;
int width=1000;
int height=640;
setBounds(x,y,width,height);
initScreen();
setVisible(true);
}
//this is a method for creating the starting screen
protected abstract void initScreen();
public void setScreen(Screen screen){
//stop controls from previous screen
removeListeners();
setCurrentScreen(screen);
//add new controls
addListeners();
}
private void removeListeners(){
if(getCurrentScreen() != null){
if(getCurrentScreen().getMouseListener() != null) removeMouseListener(getCurrentScreen().getMouseListener());
if(getCurrentScreen().getMouseMotionListener() != null) removeMouseMotionListener(getCurrentScreen().getMouseMotionListener());
if(getCurrentScreen().getKeyListener() != null) removeKeyListener(getCurrentScreen().getKeyListener());
// if(currentScreen.getMouseWheelListener() != null) removeMouseWheelListener(currentScreen.getMouseWheelListener());
}
}
private void addListeners(){
if(getCurrentScreen() != null){
if(getCurrentScreen().getMouseListener() != null)addMouseListener(getCurrentScreen().getMouseListener());
if(getCurrentScreen().getMouseMotionListener() != null) addMouseMotionListener(getCurrentScreen().getMouseMotionListener());
if(getCurrentScreen().getKeyListener() != null){
addKeyListener(getCurrentScreen().getKeyListener());
}
// if(currentScreen.getMouseWheelListener() != null) addMouseWheelListener(currentScreen.getMouseWheelListener());
}
}
public void paint(Graphics g){
g.drawImage(getCurrentScreen().getImage(), 0, 0, null);
}
public void run(){
while(true){
getCurrentScreen().update();
repaint();
try {
Thread.sleep(30);
repaint();
revalidate();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
public Screen getCurrentScreen() {
return currentScreen;
}
public void setCurrentScreen(Screen currentScreen) {
this.currentScreen = currentScreen;
}
}
This is how a game would start:
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import game.mainScreenTeam.Dragon;
import game.mainScreenTeam.HomeScreen;
import game.miniGameTeam.GameInstructions;
import game.miniGameTeam.GameScreen;
import game.miniGameTeam.HighScoreScreen;
import game.shopScreen.BuyScreenWendy;
import game.shopScreen.HomeShopScreen;
import game.shopScreen.SellShopZheng;
import guiPractice.GUIApplication;
import guiPractice.Screen;
import guiPractice.components.AnimatedComponent;
/**
* #author Kat
*
*/
public class DragonLand extends GUIApplication {
public static DragonLand game;
public static int coins = 1500;
public static HomeScreen homeScreen;
public static Screen shopMain; // shop 1
public static Screen sellScreen; // shop 2
public static Screen buyScreen; // shop 3
public static Screen highscoreScreen; // high score
public static GameScreen miniGameScreen; // minigame
public static Screen gameInstructionsScreen;
public static Screen HelpScreen;
public static Color NAVY;
public static Color BRIGHT_PINK;
public static Color LIGHT_PINK;
public static Color LIGHT_NUDE;
public static Color DARKER_NUDE;
/**
*
*/
// public static void addDragon(AnimatedComponent a){
// dragonList.add(a);
// }
public DragonLand() {
}
/* (non-Javadoc)
* #see guiPractice.GUIApplication#initScreen()
*/
#Override
protected void initScreen() {
initColors();
miniGameScreen = new GameScreen(getWidth(),getHeight());
shopMain = new HomeShopScreen(getWidth(),getHeight());
sellScreen = new SellShopZheng(getWidth(),getHeight());
homeScreen = new HomeScreen(getWidth(),getHeight());
buyScreen = new BuyScreenWendy(getWidth(),getHeight());
highscoreScreen = new HighScoreScreen(getWidth(),getHeight());
HomeScreen.jenCode = new game.mainScreenTeam.HomeJenniber();
gameInstructionsScreen = new GameInstructions(getWidth(), getHeight());
setScreen(homeScreen);
}
private void initColors() {
NAVY = new Color(62,74,99);
BRIGHT_PINK = new Color(224,102,102);
LIGHT_PINK = new Color(248,186,182);
LIGHT_NUDE = new Color(244,215,183);
DARKER_NUDE = new Color(230,195,147);
}
/**
* #param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
game = new DragonLand();
Thread go = new Thread(game);
go.start();
}
//public coin getter + setter
public void setCoins(int x){
coins = x;
}
public int getCoins(){
return coins;
}
}
This is the home screen
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import game.DragonLand;
import guiPractice.ClickableScreen;
import guiPractice.components.Action;
import guiPractice.components.AnimatedComponent;
import guiPractice.components.Button;
import guiPractice.components.Graphic;
import guiPractice.components.TextLabel;
import guiPractice.components.Visible;
import guiPractice.sampleGames.MouseFollower;
/**
* #author Kat
* #author Jenniber
*
*/
public class HomeScreen extends ClickableScreen implements Runnable{
private Graphic background;
public static HomeJenniber jenCode;
public HomeScreen(int width, int height) {
super(width, height);
Thread play = new Thread(this);
play.start();
}
#Override
public void initAllObjects(ArrayList<Visible> viewObjects) {
background=new Graphic(0,0,getWidth(),getHeight(),"img/Grassland.png");
viewObjects.add(background);
HomeKat katCode=new HomeKat(viewObjects, getWidth(), getHeight());
}
#Override
public void run() {
}
}
katCode adds buttons to the screen and image annimations

public void paint(Graphics g){
g.drawImage(getCurrentScreen().getImage(), 0, 0, null);
}
Don't override paint() on a JFrame.
The proper way to do custom painting is to override paintComponent(...) on a JPanel (or JComponent) and then you can set the content pane of the frame to this panel. And don't forget to invoke super.paintComponent(...) as the first statement in the method. Read the section from the Swing tutorial on Custom Painting for more information and working examples.
However if you do get lazy, then at minimum you need to invoke super.paint(...) as the first statement in the paint(...) method.
Also, I doubt you need the revalidate(), since you don't appear to be adding/removing components from the frame.
But in general the order should be:
revalidate(); // to invoke the layout manager
repaint(); // paint components in new location.
I also don't know why you are invoking the update() method. That seems like old AWT code which you don't use in Swing. I suggest you take a look at the tutorial link I gave you and look at the table of contents for other Swing basics.

Playing sound in Java using java.applet class

I am building a simple program with one button. I want to play the "zvuk.wav" file after I click on the button. It's not working though and I cant solve why. When I click the button, nothing happens. The zvuk.wav file is in the src file with the classes.
Here is my first class which imports java.applet:
package Music;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.applet.*;
public class Music {
private URL soubor;
public Music(String cesta){
try {
soubor = new URL("file:"+cesta);
} catch (MalformedURLException vyjimka) {
System.err.println(vyjimka);
}
Applet.newAudioClip(soubor).play();
}
}
MainFram which extends JFrame and has one Button:
package Music;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
public class MainFrame extends JFrame{
public static final int WIDTH = 480;
public static final int HEIGHT = 600;
private String file;
public MainFrame(){
setSize(WIDTH, HEIGHT);
setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
setVisible(true);
setTitle("Přehrávač");
setResizable(false);
JPanel jPanel = new JPanel();
JButton bPlay = new JButton("PLAY");
jPanel.setLayout(null);
add(jPanel);
jPanel.add(bPlay);
bPlay.setBounds(200, 250, 100, 50);
bPlay.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
Music music = new Music("zvuk.wav");
}
});
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
new MainFrame();
}
});
}
}

Please note that Applet.newAudioClip(url).play() does not throw an error if it fails for whatever reason (for example nothing will happen if the project cannot find the wav file).
Try this stand alone test app. Does it work?
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.applet.AudioClip;
import java.net.URL;
public class MainClass {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
URL url = new URL("file:zvuk.wav" );
AudioClip ac = Applet.newAudioClip(url);
ac.play();
System.out.println("Press any key to exit.");
System.in.read();
ac.stop();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
}
}
}
If this small sample works, then it should be a small matter to modify it for your purposes.
However if it doesn't work then we almost certainly know that you project is unable to find the wav file.
Try add this to the code above:
//existing line
URL url = new URL("file:zvuk.wav" );
//new lines to debug wav file location
File myMusicFile = new File(url.getPath());
if(myMusicFile.exists() && !myMusicFile.isDirectory()) {
System.out.println("File exists and is not a directory");
}
If the file does not exist then that's your problem, and you need to point your URL to the correct location.
However if the file does exist and it still doesn't work then we have another possible issue outside of code.
It is possible that .play() is completing too quickly, see below for an example of how to keep it alive.
It is possible that your wav file is not a type that can be played, or it requires an unsupported codec. This is a far bigger topic and needs a new question, and a little bit of research on your part.
Here is the example to keep it alive from the sample code:
//load and start audio
AudioClip ac = Applet.newAudioClip(url);
ac.play();
System.out.println("Press any key to exit.");
//keep thread alive until a key is pressed
System.in.read();
ac.stop();
Sources:
http://www.java2s.com/Code/JavaAPI/java.applet/AppletnewAudioClipURLaudioFileURL.htm
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/applet/AudioClip.html#play%28%29

I do this using NetBeans. This is the code.
Music.java file
package sound.play;
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
public class Music {
private URL soubor;
public Music(String cesta) {
try {
soubor = new URL("file:" + cesta);
} catch (MalformedURLException vyjimka) {
System.err.println(vyjimka);
}
Applet.newAudioClip(soubor).play();
}
}
MainFram which extends JFrame and has one Button
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.applet.AudioClip;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.io.File;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
public class MainFrame extends javax.swing.JFrame {
public static final int WIDTH = 200;
public static final int HEIGHT = 200;
private String file;
public MainFrame() {
initComponents();
setSize(WIDTH, HEIGHT);
setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
setVisible(true);
setTitle("Přehrávač");
setResizable(false);
JPanel jPanel = new JPanel();
jPanel.setLayout(null);
add(jPanel);
}
private void jButton1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
Music music = new Music("zvuk.wav");
String filename = "zvuk.wav";
URL url = this.getClass().getResource(filename);
File myMusicFile = new File(url.getPath());
AudioClip ac = Applet.newAudioClip(url);
ac.play();
System.out.println("Press any key to exit.");
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
new MainFrame().setVisible(true);
}
});
}

Different behavior of JDialog when is created by program and by user action

I have 3 clasess : Loader, MyDialog and TEST(with main method). (for code see below)
Everything I want to achieve is create simple dialog with JLabel and JProgressBar, which will notify user about how much time remains to show MyDialog. MyDialog is Jdialog with time consuming operation in constructor (loading data from database etc.).
In code below is model situation. When "MyDialog" is created by main (constant BY_USER is false), everything working exactly i want to. But when i make dialog with button , and instance of MyDialog is created after button press (constant BY_USER is true), Loader is blank white form. It looks like is not completed.
Loader is extending Thread, so i suppose that problem will be in threading (event dispatch thread)? I dont know, what is wrong and how fix it. Please help.
Thanks and sorry for my English.
CLASS TEST :
package test;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.WindowConstants;
public class TEST {
public static final boolean BY_USER = false;
public static void main(String[] args) {
if (BY_USER) {
JFrame mainDialog = new JFrame("Main");
JButton show = new JButton("Show MyDialog");
show.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
MyDialog dialog = new MyDialog();
}
});
mainDialog.add(show);
mainDialog.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
mainDialog.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(160, 80));
mainDialog.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
mainDialog.setVisible(true);
} else {
MyDialog dialog = new MyDialog();
}
}
}
CLASS MyDialog :
package test;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.WindowConstants;
public class MyDialog extends JFrame{
public MyDialog() {
super();
// making loader with title, first message and count of steps of operation
Loader loader = new Loader("Loader", "First showed message", 100);
loader.ShowLoader();
// time-consuming operation (loading data from database etc.).
// for clarity replaced with for statement
int j=0;
for(int i=0; i<Integer.MAX_VALUE; i++)
{
j++;
if(j==Integer.MAX_VALUE/100){
// updating loader message and progress bar value
loader.NewAction(Integer.MAX_VALUE - i+"");
j=0;
}
}
// closing loader
loader.DestroyLoader();
this.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
this.setSize(300, 300);
this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
this.setVisible(true);
}
}
CLASS Loader:
package test;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Dialog;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JProgressBar;
import javax.swing.SwingConstants;
public class Loader extends Thread{
private JDialog dialog;
private JLabel message = new JLabel("", SwingConstants.CENTER);
private JProgressBar progressBar = new JProgressBar(0, 100);
private String newMessage;
private double percentForStep;
private int remainingSteps;
public Loader(String taskName, String firstMessage, int steps) {
this.remainingSteps = steps-1;
dialog = new JDialog((Dialog) null, taskName);
dialog.setLayout(new BorderLayout(15, 15));
dialog.add(message, BorderLayout.CENTER);
dialog.add(progressBar, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
message.setText(firstMessage);
percentForStep = 100 / steps;
}
public void ShowLoader()
{
dialog.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(400,120));
dialog.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
dialog.setVisible(true);
this.start();
}
public void DestroyLoader(){
dialog.dispose();
this.interrupt();
}
public void NewAction(String newMessage){
this.newMessage = newMessage;
this.remainingSteps--;
Lock.changed = true;
}
public int RemainingStepsCount()
{
return remainingSteps;
}
#Override
#SuppressWarnings({"CallToThreadYield", "SleepWhileInLoop"})
public void run() {
do{
synchronized (Lock.class) {
if (Lock.changed) {
Lock.changed = false;
this.message.setText(newMessage);
this.progressBar.setValue((int)(100-(remainingSteps*percentForStep)));
dialog.repaint();
}
dialog.repaint();
}
}while(true);
}
}
class Lock{
static boolean changed = false;
}

Look to SwingWorker and his use; I think it can help you to solve the problem.

Cancel a Java Webstart custom download

when you download a resource in a Java Webstart application there's usually a download progress window displayed which shows the progress of the download. If this window is the default progress window, it has a cancel button. I'm basically trying to implement this cancel button in a custom download progress window.
As there is no method which you could call to cancel the download, I tried to find out how this was done in the default progress window. Because of the implementation with a ServiceManager it's a bit tricky to find the actual implementation. But I finally found this: [jdk-source on googlecode (DownloadServiceImpl)].
When you search for "cancel" or just scroll down to the progress method you will see that it should be as easy as throwing a RuntimeException. Sadly this doesn't really work. It just stops the progress method from being called. The resource is still downloaded in the background and the loadPart method never returns.
If you want to try this for yourself, I've prepared a small example. You will need some sort of webserver though (a local webserver is sufficient of course). I have tried this on a Windows XP (32 bit) with Java 1.6.0_21 (and apache tomcat 6).
A simple jnlp file would look like this (you probably want to change the port):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<jnlp
spec="1.0+"
codebase="http://127.0.0.1:8080/DownloadTest"
href="DownloadTest.jnlp"
version="1.0">
<information>
<title>DownloadTest</title>
<vendor>Download Tester</vendor>
</information>
<resources os="Windows">
<java version="1.6.0_18+" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" />
<jar href="DownloadTest.jar" main="true"/>
<jar href="largeResource.jar" download="lazy" part="One"/>
</resources>
<application-desc main-class="downloadtest.Main">
</application-desc>
</jnlp>
Next you will need a large file as resource (the content doesn't matter at all). For example on many windows machines you you will find "driver.cab" under "Windows\Driver Cache\i386". The file must be added to a jar archive (jar -cf largeResource.jar <input file>).
The main program looks like this (you will need to include jnlp.jar as lib, which you can find at <jdk_home>\sample\jnlp\servlet):
package downloadtest;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.jnlp.DownloadService;
import javax.jnlp.DownloadServiceListener;
import javax.jnlp.ServiceManager;
import javax.jnlp.UnavailableServiceException;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.SwingWorker;
public class Main {
private static DownloadService downloadService;
private static DownloadServiceListener customDownloadWindow;
static {
try {
downloadService = (DownloadService) ServiceManager.lookup("javax.jnlp.DownloadService");
} catch (UnavailableServiceException ex) {
System.err.println("DownloadService not available.");
}
customDownloadWindow = new CustomProgress();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame("DownloadTest");
frame.setBounds(0, 0, 200, 100);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JDialog.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setLayout(null);
JButton startDownload = new JButton("download");
startDownload.setBounds(20, 20, 150, 40);
startDownload.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
new SwingWorker<Void, Void>() {
#Override
protected Void doInBackground() {
try {
downloadService.loadPart("One", customDownloadWindow);
//downloadService.loadPart("One", downloadService.getDefaultProgressWindow());
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
System.err.println("IOException loadPart.");
}
return null;
}
}.execute();
}
});
frame.add(startDownload);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}
You can try each download progress window by uncommenting one "downloadService.loadPart..." line and commenting out the other one.
And finally the custom progress window itself:
package downloadtest;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.net.URL;
import javax.jnlp.DownloadServiceListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JProgressBar;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
public class CustomProgress implements DownloadServiceListener {
JFrame frame = null;
JProgressBar progressBar = null;
boolean uiCreated = false;
boolean canceled = false;
public CustomProgress() {
}
private void create() {
JPanel top = createComponents();
frame = new JFrame(); // top level custom progress indicator UI
frame.getContentPane().add(top, BorderLayout.CENTER);
frame.setBounds(300,300,400,300);
frame.pack();
updateProgressUI(0);
}
private JPanel createComponents() {
JPanel top = new JPanel();
top.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
top.setLayout(new BorderLayout(20, 20));
String lblText = "<html><font color=green size=+2>JDK Documentation</font>" +
"<br/> The one-stop shop for Java enlightenment! <br/></html>";
JLabel lbl = new JLabel(lblText);
top.add(lbl, BorderLayout.NORTH);
progressBar = new JProgressBar(0, 100);
progressBar.setValue(0);
progressBar.setStringPainted(true);
top.add(progressBar, BorderLayout.CENTER);
JButton cancelButton = new JButton("Cancel");
cancelButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
CustomProgress.this.canceled = true;
}
});
top.add(cancelButton, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
return top;
}
public void progress(URL url, String version, long readSoFar,
long total, int overallPercent) {
updateProgressUI(overallPercent);
}
public void upgradingArchive(java.net.URL url,
java.lang.String version,
int patchPercent,
int overallPercent) {
updateProgressUI(overallPercent);
}
public void validating(java.net.URL url,
java.lang.String version,
long entry,
long total,
int overallPercent) {
updateProgressUI(overallPercent);
}
public void downloadFailed(URL url, String string) {
System.err.println("Download failed");
}
private void updateProgressUI(int overallPercent) {
if (overallPercent > 0 && overallPercent < 99) {
if (!uiCreated) {
uiCreated = true;
// create custom progress indicator's UI only if
// there is more work to do, meaning overallPercent > 0 and < 100
// this prevents flashing when RIA is loaded from cache
create();
}
progressBar.setValue(overallPercent);
if (canceled) {
throw new RuntimeException("canceled by user");
}
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
frame.setVisible(true);
}
});
} else {
// hide frame when overallPercent is above 99
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
if (frame != null) {
frame.setVisible(false);
frame.dispose();
}
}
});
}
}
}
This is basically taken from an Oracle tutorial (http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/webstart/customProgressIndicatorForAppln.html). I just added a cancel button.
When you build this as a jar file and put it together with the largeResource.jar and DownloadTest.jnlp in a public folder of your webserver, you should be able to start the application via your web browser. Then click the download button and before it is finished click the cancel button in the download window. After trying the custom progress window you will need to remove the application (or just the resource) from your Java cache (because the resource is downloaded in the background regardless of clicking the cancel button).
So, why is this working with the default progress window but not with the custom progress window? Is there an easy possibility to cancel a download with a custom download window?
Any help or hints appreciated.
Drax

Ok, took a look at the Google sample you showed and found this at the bottom of the class
/*
* Progress Helper class
*
* The DownloadServiceListerner interface defined in the JNLP API is
* a subset of the DownloadProgressWindow interface used by elsewhere.
*
* this class is used to create a Helper object that implements both.
*/
private class ProgressHelper extends CustomProgress {
private DownloadServiceListener _dsp = null;
public ProgressHelper() {
_dsp = null;
}
public ProgressHelper(DownloadServiceListener dsp) {
setAppThreadGroup(Thread.currentThread().getThreadGroup());
setListener(dsp);
_dsp = dsp;
if (_dsp instanceof DefaultProgressHelper) {
((DefaultProgressHelper) _dsp).initialize();
}
// for bug #4432604:
_dsp.progress(null, null, 0, 0, -1);
}
public void done() {
if (_dsp instanceof DefaultProgressHelper) {
((DefaultProgressHelper) _dsp).done();
} else {
// make sure callbacks to DownloadServiceListener have
// been called before returning (for TCK test)
flush();
}
}
}
And what is interesting is that it looks like it sets the current thread's ThreadGroup as the application thread group. So this leads me to believe that by doing this the actual download is kept closer to the application (not sure what the correct terminology would be) such that the RuntimeException throw in the class in the cancel check really does affect it.
Otherwise, my hunch is that in your application the download actually takes place in another thread and is "unaffected" by the Exception thrown by your application, hence, allowing it to complete.

Windows 7 Taskbar Progress Bar in Java

I'd like to know if it is possible to make a progress bar displayed on the taskbar like Windows Explorer does when there's a file operation going on?
I saw many examples, but they all involved C#.
SWT won't cut it.

I found out that this feature is included in Java 9. It is part of AWT and it is quity simple too use.
Here is short example:
import java.awt.Taskbar;
import java.awt.Taskbar.State;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.WindowConstants;
/**
* #author fxl
*/
public class TaskbarSample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// JavaDoc:
// https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/awt/Taskbar.html
// MSDNDoc:
// https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd391692(VS.85).aspx
if (Taskbar.isTaskbarSupported() == false) {
return;
}
JFrame dialog = new JFrame("Test - 50%");
dialog.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
dialog.setVisible(true);
Taskbar taskbar = Taskbar.getTaskbar();
taskbar.setWindowProgressState(dialog, State.ERROR);
taskbar.setWindowProgressValue(dialog, 50);
}
}

this is now possible using SWT please review the code example:
org.eclipse.swt.snippets.Snippet336

This example will do the job:
Task bar:
Code:
import org.bridj.Platform;
import org.bridj.Pointer;
import org.bridj.cpp.com.COMRuntime;
import org.bridj.cpp.com.shell.ITaskbarList3;
import org.bridj.jawt.JAWTUtils;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeEvent;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
public class TaskBarListDemo extends JFrame implements ActionListener, ChangeListener
{
private ITaskbarList3 list;
private JSlider slider;
private Pointer<?> hwnd;
private TaskBarListDemo() throws ClassNotFoundException
{
super("TaskbarList Demo (" + (Platform.is64Bits() ? "64 bits" : "32 bits") + ")");
list = COMRuntime.newInstance(ITaskbarList3.class);
getContentPane().add("Center", new JLabel("Hello Native Windows 7 World !"));
Box box = Box.createVerticalBox();
int min = 0;
int max = 300;
int val = (min + max / 2);
slider = new JSlider(min, max, val);
slider.addChangeListener(this);
box.add(slider);
ButtonGroup group = new ButtonGroup();
for (ITaskbarList3.TbpFlag state : ITaskbarList3.TbpFlag.values())
{
JRadioButton cb = new JRadioButton(state.name());
group.add(cb);
cb.putClientProperty(ITaskbarList3.TbpFlag.class, state);
cb.setSelected(state == ITaskbarList3.TbpFlag.TBPF_NORMAL);
cb.addActionListener(this);
box.add(cb);
}
getContentPane().add("South", box);
}
#Override
protected void finalize() throws Throwable
{
super.finalize();
list.Release();
}
public void setVisible(boolean visible)
{
super.setVisible(visible);
long hwndVal = JAWTUtils.getNativePeerHandle(this);
hwnd = Pointer.pointerToAddress(hwndVal);
list.SetProgressValue((Pointer) hwnd, slider.getValue(), slider.getMaximum());
}
#Override
public void stateChanged(ChangeEvent actionEvent)
{
list.SetProgressValue((Pointer) hwnd, slider.getValue(), slider.getMaximum());
}
#Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent actionEvent)
{
JRadioButton button = ((JRadioButton) actionEvent.getSource());
if (button.isSelected())
{
ITaskbarList3.TbpFlag flag = (ITaskbarList3.TbpFlag) button.getClientProperty(ITaskbarList3.TbpFlag.class);
list.SetProgressValue((Pointer) hwnd, slider.getValue(), slider.getMaximum());
list.SetProgressState((Pointer) hwnd, flag);
}
}
public static void main(String[] arguments) throws Exception
{
TaskBarListDemo f = new TaskBarListDemo();
f.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
f.pack();
f.setVisible(true);
}
}
Maven dependencies:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.nativelibs4java</groupId>
<artifactId>bridj</artifactId>
<version>LATEST</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
<artifactId>jna</artifactId>
<version>LATEST</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.java.dev.jna</groupId>
<artifactId>jna-platform</artifactId>
<version>LATEST</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

There is no standard facility in Java for doing so, yet.
Hence you need to talk to Windows directly to do that. So you need to locate the correct Windows routine, and use JNA (probably the easiest) to invoke that routine. I do not know of a vendor or a project who has done this already.
Edit: It appears that the http://code.google.com/p/nativelibs4java/ project may do what you want.

As Java9's java.awt.Taskbar only works for old swing frames (they somehow forgot to implement this for javafx.stage.Stage) and com.nativelibs4java bridj isn't working (anymore) (see https://github.com/nativelibs4java/BridJ/issues/94) I implemented a solution using JNA 4.1.0.
Please note:
Relies on calling internal javafx api (com.sun.javafx.stage.WindowHelper) - so it might break with the next java update
It only sets the "indeterminate" progress state - but normal progress state should be possible too with some adjustments
Hope this helps.
ITaskbarList3.java
package example;
import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.Guid.IID;
import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.WinDef.HWND;
import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.WinNT.HRESULT;
public interface ITaskbarList3 {
IID IID_ITASKBARLIST3 = new IID("ea1afb91-9e28-4b86-90e9-9e9f8a5eefaf"); // from ShObjIdl.h
int TBPF_NOPROGRESS = 0;
int TBPF_INDETERMINATE = 0x1;
int TBPF_NORMAL = 0x2;
int TBPF_ERROR = 0x4;
int TBPF_PAUSED = 0x8;
HRESULT SetProgressState(HWND hwnd, int tbpFlags);
}
TaskbarList3.java
package example;
import com.sun.jna.Pointer;
import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.WinDef.HWND;
import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.WinNT.HRESULT;
import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.COM.COMInvoker;
public final class TaskbarList3 extends COMInvoker implements ITaskbarList3 {
public TaskbarList3(Pointer pointer) {
setPointer(pointer);
}
#Override
public HRESULT SetProgressState(HWND hwnd, int tbpFlags) {
return (HRESULT) this._invokeNativeObject(
10, // magic number (gathered by trial and error)
new Object[] { this.getPointer(), hwnd, tbpFlags },
HRESULT.class);
}
}
TaskbarPeer.java
package example;
import com.sun.javafx.stage.WindowHelper;
import com.sun.jna.Pointer;
import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.Guid.CLSID;
import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.Ole32;
import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.W32Errors;
import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.WTypes;
import com.sun.jna.platform.win32.WinDef.HWND;
import com.sun.jna.ptr.PointerByReference;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public final class TaskbarPeer {
public static void setIndeterminateProgress(Stage stage, boolean indeterminate) {
final var peer = WindowHelper.getPeer(stage);
final long windowHandle = peer.getRawHandle();
final var clsid = new CLSID("56FDF344-FD6D-11d0-958A-006097C9A090"); // from ShObjIdl.h
final var taskbarListPointerRef = new PointerByReference();
var hr = Ole32.INSTANCE.CoCreateInstance(clsid, null, WTypes.CLSCTX_SERVER,
ITaskbarList3.IID_ITASKBARLIST3, taskbarListPointerRef);
if (W32Errors.FAILED(hr)) {
throw new RuntimeException("failed with code: " + hr.intValue());
}
final TaskbarList3 taskbarList = new TaskbarList3(taskbarListPointerRef.getValue());
final var hwnd = new HWND(new Pointer(windowHandle));
final int progressState = indeterminate ? ITaskbarList3.TBPF_INDETERMINATE : ITaskbarList3.TBPF_NOPROGRESS;
hr = taskbarList.SetProgressState(hwnd, progressState);
if (W32Errors.FAILED(hr)) {
throw new RuntimeException("failed with code: " + hr.intValue());
}
}
}
Sample.java
package example;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Button;
import javafx.stage.Stage;
public final class Sample extends Application {
private boolean indeterminateProgressState = false;
public static void main(String[] args) {
launch(args);
}
#Override
public void start(Stage primaryStage) throws Exception {
final Button btn = new Button("Click me!");
primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(btn));
primaryStage.sizeToScene();
primaryStage.show();
btn.setOnAction(evt -> {
indeterminateProgressState = !indeterminateProgressState;
TaskbarPeer.setIndeterminateProgress(primaryStage, indeterminateProgressState);
});
}
}

Windows exposes this through COM. I am sure a "flat DLL" call would be easier for you, but if you can get to COM you can do this. The COM interface is ITaskbarList3 (there is also an ITaskbarList4 you can use that inherits from it.) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd391692(VS.85).aspx documents it. SetProgressState and SetProgressValue are the methods you will want to invoke. State is normal (green), paused (yellow), error (red), indeterminate (swooshing green) and none. On the MSDN page some community people have added details of calling this COM component from VB and C# - that might help you figure out the setup and tear down required from Java.