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Class java.awt.EventQueue
java.lang.Object | +----java.awt.EventQueue
public class EventQueue extends Object
EventQueue is a platform-independent class that queues events, both from the underlying peer classes and from trusted application classes. There is only one EventQueue for the system.
EventQueue()
getNextEvent() Remove an event from the queue and return it.
peekEvent() Return the first event without removing it.
peekEvent(int)
postEvent(AWTEvent) Post a 1.1-style event to the EventQueue.
EventQueue
public EventQueue()
postEvent
public synchronized void postEvent(AWTEvent theEvent)
Post a 1.1-style event to the EventQueue.
Parameters: theEvent - an instance of java.awt.AWTEvent, or a subclass of it.
getNextEvent
public synchronized AWTEvent getNextEvent() throws InterruptedException
Remove an event from the queue and return it. This method will block until an event has been posted by another thread.
Returns: the next AWTEvent Throws: InterruptedException if another thread has interrupted this thread.
peekEvent
public synchronized AWTEvent peekEvent()
Return the first event without removing it.
Returns: the first event, which is either an instance of java.awt.Event or java.awt.AWTEvent.
peekEvent
public synchronized AWTEvent peekEvent(int id)
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