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Thread and Swing

Posted by Yevgeniy Kaganovich on January 19, 2002 at 6:07 PM

I remember reading that in a modal dialog, the original EventDispatchThread gets suspended, and a new EventDispatchThread is created. When the dialog goes away, the original EventDispatchThread wakes up.

Don't remember where I read that, though...