How to generate exceptions from RepaintManager

Question

In connection with my question (may be), I found another exception type that I not able to catch and print-out from SwingWorker thread.

How can I to generate RepaintManager exceptions?

I read this CheckThreadViolationRepaintManager and this approach by Alexander Potochkin, but nothing seems to solve my issues.

Trier

Can you clarify your question? Thanks /Pete – Blacksnake

Pete _ I needed to generate exception that always killed Swing GUI on EDT, one of exception I able to generating, painting quickest as latency in Window OS, then is no longer possible to using current container, then any reason why to generating this exception, there is/are another exception(s), container is still alive, its JComponents are visible and works, I think that is not GPU lack, beacuse I got this exception on virtual enviroment and on normal PC too, I haven't add there any Custom Container, L&f or JComponents, every are plains JComponents – Trier

@mKorbel: The Potochkin blog pages seem to have moved, so I've updated the links in my answer. Sorry to impose, but do you have anything better? – Jagir

@Jagir thanks, (AFAIK) no there isn't something better – Trier

Answer 1

If it helps, the example below throws prints multiple variations of the following Exception, mostly for each phase of the frame's UI delegate initialization. I used CheckThreadViolationRepaintManager, but the AspectJ variation looks interesting, too.

java.lang.Exception
    at EDTViolation$CheckThreadViolationRepaintManager.checkThreadViolations(EDTViolation.java:43)
    at EDTViolation$CheckThreadViolationRepaintManager.addDirtyRegion(EDTViolation.java:37)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.repaint(JComponent.java:4734)
    at java.awt.Component.repaint(Component.java:3168)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.setFont(JComponent.java:2727)
    at javax.swing.LookAndFeel.installColorsAndFont(LookAndFeel.java:191)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicPanelUI.installDefaults(BasicPanelUI.java:49)
    at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicPanelUI.installUI(BasicPanelUI.java:39)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.setUI(JComponent.java:662)
    at javax.swing.JPanel.setUI(JPanel.java:136)
    at javax.swing.JPanel.updateUI(JPanel.java:109)
    at javax.swing.JPanel.(JPanel.java:69)
    at javax.swing.JPanel.(JPanel.java:92)
    at javax.swing.JPanel.(JPanel.java:100)
    at javax.swing.JRootPane.createGlassPane(JRootPane.java:528)
    at javax.swing.JRootPane.(JRootPane.java:348)
    at javax.swing.JFrame.createRootPane(JFrame.java:255)
    at javax.swing.JFrame.frameInit(JFrame.java:236)
    at javax.swing.JFrame.(JFrame.java:159)
    at EDTViolation.main(EDTViolation.java:12)
...

import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
import javax.swing.JComponent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.RepaintManager;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

/** @see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7787998 */
public class EDTViolation {

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        RepaintManager.setCurrentManager(new CheckThreadViolationRepaintManager());
        JFrame f = new JFrame();
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.pack();
        f.setVisible(true);
    }
    
    private static class CheckThreadViolationRepaintManager extends RepaintManager {
    //http://weblogs.java.net/blog/alexfromsun/archive/2006/02/debugging_swing.html

        private boolean completeCheck = true;
        private WeakReference<JComponent> lastComponent;

        public CheckThreadViolationRepaintManager(boolean completeCheck) {
            this.completeCheck = completeCheck;
        }

        public CheckThreadViolationRepaintManager() {
            this(true);
        }

        public boolean isCompleteCheck() {
            return completeCheck;
        }

        public void setCompleteCheck(boolean completeCheck) {
            this.completeCheck = completeCheck;
        }

        @Override
        public synchronized void addInvalidComponent(JComponent component) {
            checkThreadViolations(component);
            super.addInvalidComponent(component);
        }

        @Override
        public void addDirtyRegion(JComponent component, int x, int y, int w, int h) {
            checkThreadViolations(component);
            super.addDirtyRegion(component, x, y, w, h);
        }

        private void checkThreadViolations(JComponent c) {
            if (!SwingUtilities.isEventDispatchThread() && (completeCheck || c.isShowing())) {
                boolean repaint = false;
                boolean fromSwing = false;
                boolean imageUpdate = false;
                StackTraceElement[] stackTrace = Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace();
                for (StackTraceElement st : stackTrace) {
                    if (repaint && st.getClassName().startsWith("javax.swing.")
                        && // for details see 
                        // https://swinghelper.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1
                        !st.getClassName().startsWith("javax.swing.SwingWorker")) {
                        fromSwing = true;
                    }
                    if (repaint && "imageUpdate".equals(st.getMethodName())) {
                        imageUpdate = true;
                    }
                    if ("repaint".equals(st.getMethodName())) {
                        repaint = true;
                        fromSwing = false;
                    }
                    if ("read".equals(st.getMethodName()) && "javax.swing.JEditorPane".equals(st.getClassName())) {
                        // Swing reads html from a background thread
                        return;
                    }
                }
                if (imageUpdate) {
                //assuming it is java.awt.image.ImageObserver.imageUpdate(...) 
                    //image was asynchronously updated, that's ok 
                    return;
                }
                if (repaint && !fromSwing) {
                    //no problems here, since repaint() is thread safe
                    return;
                }
                //ignore the last processed component
                if (lastComponent != null && c == lastComponent.get()) {
                    return;
                }
                lastComponent = new WeakReference<JComponent>(c);
                violationFound(c, stackTrace);
            }
        }

        protected void violationFound(JComponent c, StackTraceElement[] stackTrace) {
            System.out.println();
            System.out.println("EDT violation detected");
            System.out.println(c);
            for (StackTraceElement st : stackTrace) {
                System.out.println("\tat " + st);
            }
        }
    }
}

Jagir

Answer 2

Create your own Exception

class RepaintManagerException extends Exception
{
   String msg;

   RepaintManagerException()
   {
        msg = new String("type message here");
    }
}

Usage

public class My_Exception
{
    public static void main (String args [ ])
    {
        try
        {
            // your code

            if (expression) throw new RepaintManagerException( );
        }
        catch (RepaintManagerException e)
        {
        System.out.println (e);
        }
    }
}

Businesswoman

On reviewing his other question, I don't think that this is what he's looking for, but I may be wrong as not 100% sure what mkorbel's question is. – Blacksnake

@HovercraftFullOfEels: True, but it's a nice outline of how this approach works. For reference, the genesis of the question is suggested here: more than a few stack traces due to incorrect synchronization include RepaintManager. – Jagir

@trashgod: talk about a blast from the past about a library that is long past its prime – Blacksnake