[jrlawhorne]

Hello

I have an app that syncs its data model in a separate thread.

I have a refresh method in my MainScreen that updates the view of the model.

If I add a menu item that invokes the refresh method, it works just fine. But, I'd like to just periodically update the view, maybe in a TimerTask. When I try this, I get an illegal state exception.

I'm interested in common patterns for what I'm trying to do and maybe a code snippet that would help or a pointer to a sample project that does this.

Thanks

[Dougsg38p]

I assume that you are basically implementing the Observer pattern in your Model class?

Since the Model is not running in the main event thread, then any attempt to update UI components from the Listener method (in the View class) will result in an exception. you need to encapsulate the required UI update in a Runnable class, and use UiApplication.invokeLater() to queue the command so that it executes in the main UI enent thread.

See the API docs for Runnable and UiApplication.invokeLater().

[jrlawhorne]

Excellent. Thanks!

To help others, here is essentially what I've done.

In my application's ctor, I create the model, create the view/controller (which is essentially the main screen), then I call invokeLater() on my RefreshRunnable (just an implementation of Runnable) which calls a refresh function in my view every 5 seconds.

This all happens before enterEventDispatcher() is called in the app's main().

Thanks!