905: Highlights

• If you want to create a thread that calls a method defined in another class, the controlled class, then instantiate the following pattern:

  public class class name extends Thread { 
   controlled-class name instance variable;  
   public class name (controlled-class name parameter) {  
    instance variable = parameter; 
   }  
   public void run () { 
    // Method calls with instance variable as the target  
   } 
  } 
  

• If one thread is to call a method in another thread that involves display, then the calling thread should call the called thread indirectly via a change handler and the SwingUtilities class method, invokeLater.
• If you want a thread to pause, then instantiate the following pattern:

  try{sleep(time, in milliseconds);} 
  catch (InterruptedException e) {return;} 
  

• If you want to stop a thread, then assign a new value to a variable that is tested by the thread's run method and then arrange for the new value to cause the run method to return.