Akka Futures in the Swing Event Dispatch Thread

swingfutures.scala

// © 2012 Viktor Klang

import akka.dispatch.ExecutionContext
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities
import java.util.concurrent.Executor

//
object SwingExecutionContext {
  implicit val swingExecutionContext: ExecutionContext = ExecutionContext.fromExecutor(new Executor {
    def execute(command: Runnable): Unit = SwingUtilities invokeLater command
  })
}

// Now all you need to do is to use it
  import SwingExecutionContext._
  Future {
    …
  }

// Enjoy!

Hi!

Sorry for the late reply, just saw this.

I don't think it's needed to add to scala swing since it's just like 4 lines of code :-)

Cheers,
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