com.jmo.mailmessager.display
Class MailMessagerStatusBar

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      com.jmo.mailmessager.display.MailMessagerStatusBar

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

public class MailMessagerStatusBar
extends java.lang.Thread

Thread creates Status Bar window that is updated with what's going on during MailMessager's startup.

Version:

0.0.1

Author:

John Morales

See Also:

MailMessagerConstants

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

java.lang.Thread.State, java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

MailMessagerStatusBar()
Creates a new MailMessagerStatusBar

Method Summary

static void	closeWindow() Called when you want to close the Status Bar without error.
static void	closeWindow(java.lang.String message) Called when you want to close the StatusBar.
static javax.swing.JLabel	getHeadlingLabelInstance() Return instance of StatusBar's shared headingLabel.
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) Display status bar -- for debugging status bar's appearance.
void	run() Thread to construct initial StatusBar window.
static void	updateStatus(java.lang.String status) Update message of what's currently happening and increase the status bar by coloring the next section of progress panes blue.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MailMessagerStatusBar

public MailMessagerStatusBar()

Creates a new MailMessagerStatusBar

Method Detail

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

Display status bar -- for debugging status bar's appearance.

run

public void run()

Thread to construct initial StatusBar window.

Specified by:

run in interface java.lang.Runnable

Overrides:

run in class java.lang.Thread

updateStatus

public static void updateStatus(java.lang.String status)

Update message of what's currently happening and increase the status bar by coloring the next section of progress panes blue.

Parameters:

status - New message to be displayed about what's currently happening.

closeWindow

public static void closeWindow()
                        throws java.lang.Exception

Called when you want to close the Status Bar without error. Calls closeWindow with "Finishing..." as argument.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - If thread is interrupted while sleeping for one second.

closeWindow

public static void closeWindow(java.lang.String message)
                        throws java.lang.Exception

Called when you want to close the StatusBar. Displays supplied message string on the StatusBar, fills in any remaining gray progress panes blue, sleeps for one second, then hides window.

Parameters:

message - String to display on StatusBar.

Throws:

java.lang.Exception - If thread is interrupted while sleeping for one second.

getHeadlingLabelInstance

public static javax.swing.JLabel getHeadlingLabelInstance()

Return instance of StatusBar's shared headingLabel.