JButton Updates

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Inside the ActionListener for a JButton, I need to disable the button, set it as selected, wait 1 second, then reset it to enabled and de-selected. This is easy enough, however, apparently JButtons do not update until the listener has finished execution.

Is their a method or field I can change to make JButtons apply changes immediately?

[rizzix]

yea.. take a look at the javax.swing.SwingUtilities class. (mulithreaded approach)

in perticular the..
static void invokeAndWait(Runnable doRun)
static void invokeLater(Runnable doRun)

methods

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Turns out there's a more hack but simpler way... in the listener:

aButton.paint(aButton.getGraphics());

Thanks for the help though...