Re: Questions about Platform.runLater() and Application.start()

2014-11-05 Thread Kevin Rushforth
Date: 11/03/2014 09:58 AM Subject: Re: Questions about Platform.runLater() and Application.start() Hi there, If you en-queue a runnable in start() it will not run until start() completes unless you open a dialog in start() that waits for a result before proceeding. In that case,

Re: Questions about Platform.runLater() and Application.start()

2014-11-05 Thread ngalarneau
ooks like the "JavaFX Application Thread" is the item processor. Neil From: Stephen F Northover To: ngalarn...@abinitio.com, openjfx-dev@openjdk.java.net, Date: 11/03/2014 09:58 AM Subject: Re: Questions about Platform.runLater() and Application.start() Hi the

Re: Questions about Platform.runLater() and Application.start()

2014-11-03 Thread Stephen F Northover
Hi there, If you en-queue a runnable in start() it will not run until start() completes unless you open a dialog in start() that waits for a result before proceeding. In that case, your runnable will run. You are correct about runnables and input events being part of the input queue for the

Questions about Platform.runLater() and Application.start()

2014-11-03 Thread ngalarneau
Hello, Is there documentation that describes somewhere how Platform.runLater() & Application.start() interact? My impression is that (roughly speaking): - there is an EventQueue (to use the Swing terminology). - the EventQueue holds both UI events (like mouse click) as well as the Runnables e