Manage GUI and EDT in a multi-task application

Question

I developed a Java application for creating and extracting an archive - like WinRAR. You can create several archives at the same time with multithreading. And recently, I wa

Answer 1

The answer provided by @mKorbel is fine, but there really is no need to use another top-level container (e.g. a JDialog) to display the progress bar. Instead, you can use the Glass Pane of the JFrame instance.