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Class java.awt.EventQueue 

java.lang.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.

Constructor Index

o 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 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.
o getNextEvent 
 public synchronized 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 AWTEvent peekEvent()
Return the first event without removing it.

Returns:
the first AWTEvent
o peekEvent 
 public synchronized AWTEvent peekEvent(int id)

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