Re: getImage exception

• To: Paul Gifford <pgg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: getImage exception
• From: Dave Glowacki <dglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 17:27:39 -0500

Paul Gifford wrote:
>   Here's my latest exception:
> 
> visad.VisADError: cannot call getImage() from Thread: AWT-EventQueue-0
>         at visad.DisplayImpl.getImage(DisplayImpl.java:1624)
> 
> 
>   Any thoughts?  I don't get the exception when I run Test50, but I
> don't see what it is I'm doing differently.  A call to getImage() seems
> pretty straightforward!

You can get into a deadlock if you try to use getImage() from
anything other than the main thread (sorry I can't be more
specific ... this is something Bill fixed back in April and
I don't remember the exact details.)

Hopefully, this will be enough to jog someone else's memory
about a better fix...

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