Java Swing — Writing a Ui that will repaint itself based on changes to a custom data object

Question

First things first -- I had posted a question earlier wherein i had asked for help as to why my code was not working and this question is acting upon the advice i got in tha

Answer 1

I'm really lost (from your last three question),

may be, could we imagine that you have got three separated Models for one GUI, in this case doesn't important if you want to change number of elements in the GUI, or change properties for one JComponent,

output from PropertyChangeListener quite guarantee that output could be done on EDT

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeEvent;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeListener;
import java.beans.PropertyChangeSupport;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.Queue;
import javax.swing.*;

public class MVC_ProgressBarThread {

    private MVC_ProgressBarThread() {
        MVC_View view = new MVC_View();
        MVC_Model model = new MVC_Model();
        MVC_Control control = new MVC_Control(view, model);
        view.setControl(control);
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("MVC_ProgressBarThread");
        frame.getContentPane().add(view);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                MVC_ProgressBarThread mVC_ProgressBarThread = new MVC_ProgressBarThread();
            }
        });
    }
}

class MVC_View extends JPanel {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private MVC_Control control;
    private JProgressBar progressBar = new JProgressBar();
    private JButton startActionButton = new JButton("Press Me and Run this Madness");
    private JLabel myLabel = new JLabel("Nothing Special");

    public MVC_View() {
        startActionButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {

            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                buttonActionPerformed();
            }
        });
        JPanel buttonPanel = new JPanel();
        startActionButton.setFocusPainted(false);
        buttonPanel.add(startActionButton);
        setLayout(new BorderLayout(10, 10));
        add(buttonPanel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
        progressBar.setStringPainted(true);
        add(progressBar, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        myLabel.setIcon(UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.questionIcon"));
        myLabel.setHorizontalAlignment(javax.swing.SwingConstants.CENTER);
        add(myLabel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
    }

    public void setControl(MVC_Control control) {
        this.control = control;
    }

    private void buttonActionPerformed() {
        if (control != null) {
            control.doButtonAction();
        }
    }

    public void setProgress(int progress) {
        progressBar.setValue(progress);
    }

    public void setProgressLabel(String label) {
        progressBar.setString(label);
    }

    public void setIconLabel(Icon icon) {
        myLabel.setIcon(icon);
    }

    public void start() {
        startActionButton.setEnabled(false);
    }

    public void done() {
        startActionButton.setEnabled(true);
        setProgress(100);
        setProgressLabel("   Done !!!   ");
        setIconLabel(null);
    }
}

class MVC_Control {

    private MVC_View view;
    private MVC_Model model;

    public MVC_Control(final MVC_View view, final MVC_Model model) {
        this.view = view;
        this.model = model;
        model.addPropertyChangeListener(new PropertyChangeListener() {

            @Override
            public void propertyChange(PropertyChangeEvent pce) {
                if (MVC_Model.PROGRESS.equals(pce.getPropertyName())) {
                    view.setProgress((Integer) pce.getNewValue());
                }
                if (MVC_Model.PROGRESS1.equals(pce.getPropertyName())) {
                    view.setProgressLabel((String) pce.getNewValue());
                }
                if (MVC_Model.PROGRESS2.equals(pce.getPropertyName())) {
                    view.setIconLabel((Icon) pce.getNewValue());
                }
            }
        });
    }

    public void doButtonAction() {
        view.start();
        SwingWorker swingworker = new SwingWorker() {

            @Override
            protected Void doInBackground() throws Exception {
                model.reset();
                model.startSearch();
                return null;
            }

            @Override
            protected void done() {
                view.done();
            }
        };
        swingworker.execute();
    }
}

class MVC_Model {

    public static final String PROGRESS = "progress";
    public static final String PROGRESS1 = "progress1";
    public static final String PROGRESS2 = "progress2";
    private static final int MAX = 11;
    private static final long SLEEP_DELAY = 1000;
    private int progress = 0;
    private String label = "Start";
    private PropertyChangeSupport pcs = new PropertyChangeSupport(this);
    private PropertyChangeSupport pcs1 = new PropertyChangeSupport(this);
    private PropertyChangeSupport pcs2 = new PropertyChangeSupport(this);
    private final String[] petStrings = {"Bird", "Cat", "Dog",
        "Rabbit", "Pig", "Fish", "Horse", "Cow", "Bee", "Skunk"};
    private int index = 1;
    private Queue iconQueue = new LinkedList();
    private Icon icon = (UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.questionIcon"));

    public void setProgress(int progress) {
        int oldProgress = this.progress;
        this.progress = progress;
        PropertyChangeEvent evt = new PropertyChangeEvent(this, PROGRESS,
                oldProgress, progress);
        pcs.firePropertyChange(evt);
    }

    public void setProgressLabel(String label) {
        String oldString = this.label;
        this.label = label;
        PropertyChangeEvent evt = new PropertyChangeEvent(this, PROGRESS1,
                oldString, label);
        pcs1.firePropertyChange(evt);
    }

    public void setIconLabel(Icon icon) {
        Icon oldIcon = this.icon;
        this.icon = icon;
        PropertyChangeEvent evt = new PropertyChangeEvent(this, PROGRESS2,
                oldIcon, icon);
        pcs2.firePropertyChange(evt);
    }

    public void reset() {
        setProgress(0);
    }

    public void addPropertyChangeListener(PropertyChangeListener listener) {
        pcs.addPropertyChangeListener(listener);
        pcs1.addPropertyChangeListener(listener);
        pcs2.addPropertyChangeListener(listener);
    }

    public void startSearch() {
        iconQueue.add(UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.errorIcon"));
        iconQueue.add(UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.informationIcon"));
        iconQueue.add(UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.warningIcon"));
        iconQueue.add(UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.questionIcon"));
        for (int i = 0; i < MAX; i++) {
            int newValue = (100 * i) / MAX;
            setProgress(newValue);
            setProgressLabel(petStrings[index]);
            index = (index + 1) % petStrings.length;
            setIconLabel(nextIcon());
            try {
                Thread.sleep(SLEEP_DELAY);
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            }
        }
    }

    private Icon nextIcon() {
        Icon icon1 = iconQueue.peek();
        iconQueue.add(iconQueue.remove());
        return icon1;
    }
}