Wait screen and Thread

Question

Hi
I am trying to build a general wait screen like this
public class Wait extends javax.swing.JFrame {
    private Thread counterThread;
    private String titleWindow;
    public Wait(String title, Thread tr) {
        initComponents();
        this.setTitle(title);
        this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        this.setVisible(true);
        counterThread = tr;
        try {
            URL url = new URL("file:///c:/Foronomos/resources/25-0.gif");
            Icon icon = new ImageIcon(url);
            jLabel1.setIcon(icon);
            jLabel1.setText("");
        } catch (Exception ex) {
      counterThread.start();
    /** This method is called from within the constructor to
     * initialize the form.
     * WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is
     * always regenerated by the Form Editor.
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">                         
    private void initComponents() {
        jLabel1 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jLabel2 = new javax.swing.JLabel();
        jButtonCancel = new javax.swing.JButton();
        jButtonStart = new javax.swing.JButton();
    }// </editor-fold>                       
private void jButtonCancelActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {                                             
    counterThread.interrupt();
    // Variables declaration                     
    private javax.swing.JButton jButtonCancel;
    private javax.swing.JButton jButtonStart;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel1;
    private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel2;
    // End of variables declaration                  
}then am display the wait screen from a class creating a new thread
ShowDocument showDocument = new ShowDocument();
showDocument.showDocument(id, Main.searchDocuments.getQueryString());
Thread counterThread = new Thread(showDocument, "showDocument");
new Wait("Wait...",counterThread);
....my problem is that the wait screen delays to displayed on the screen an seems like to wait until the thread is finished
Am i something missing here?

Answer 1

TeoDim wrote:
thanx for reply
After the code new Wait("Wait...",counterThread);)
i am not doing nothing.So you are doing something?
Just if i press a button i want to display a screen with results from a long delay time query. So i want to display at that time a form with a messageFrom where are you execution the long running task? Where is it executing? Are you sure that you aren't using the AWT/Swing thread?