Discard all messages except the last one in a Scala actor
问题 I have a SwingWorker actor which computes a plot for display from a parameters object it gets send; then draws the plot on the EDT thread. Some GUI elements can tweak parameters for this plot. When they change I generate a new parameter object and send it to the worker. This works so far. Now when moving a slider many events are created and queue up in the worker's mailbox. But I only need to compute the plot for the very last set of parameters. Is there a way to drop all messages from the