Class java.awt.EventQueue 
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Class java.awt.EventQueue 

Object
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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.

Version:
1.21 07/21/98
Author:
Thomas Ball

Constructor Index

o java.awt.EventQueue()

Method Index

o getNextEvent()
Remove an event from the queue and return it.
o peekEvent()
Return the first event without removing it.
o peekEvent(int)
o postEvent(AWTEvent)
Post a 1.1-style event to the EventQueue.

Constructors

o EventQueue 
public EventQueue()

Methods

o getNextEvent 
public synchronized java.awt.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.
o peekEvent 
public synchronized java.awt.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.
o peekEvent 
public synchronized java.awt.AWTEvent peekEvent(int id)
o 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. 
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