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setvisible method in java swing hangs system

Asked 2010-12-10T21:04:02.770
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I have banking gui application that I am currently working on and there seems to be a problem with the setvisible method for my jdialog. After the user has withdrawn a valid amount I pop up a simple dialog that says "transaction in progress". In my dobackground method i keep polling to check if the transaction has been received. I tried using swingworker and I don't understand why it's not working. If i remove the setvisible call it works fine, so why does setvisible cause the system to hang? Here is the code that is inside my jbutton mouselistener:

SwingWorker<String,Integer> worker = new SwingWorker<String,Integer>(){

  JDialog waitForTrans = new JDialog((JFrame)null,true);
  public String doInBackground() throws Exception {
     waitForTrans.add(new JLabel("Updating balance in system. Please Wait..."));
     waitForTrans.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(300,100));
     waitForTrans.setDefaultCloseOperation(DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
     waitForTrans.setVisible(true);
     Bank.getInstance().sendTransaction(currentPin,"-"+withdraw);
     while(!Bank.getInstance().hasCompletedTransaction){

     }
     return null;

  }

  public void done(){
   try {
        this.get();
       } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (ExecutionException e) {

        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    waitForTrans.setVisible(false);
    newField.setText(String.valueOf(Bank.getInstance().getAccountList().get(currentPin).getBalance()));
  }

 };
 worker.execute();
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You are displaying a modal dialog so the background code can't execute until the dialog is closed.

Add a System.out.println(...) statement after the setVisible and you will see it never executes.

answered 2010-12-10T21:11:37.550

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