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# Class java.awt.EventQueue

    java.lang.Object
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       +----java.awt.EventQueue

public class EventQueue
extends Object

EventQueue is a platform-independent class that queues events, both from the underlying peer classes and from trusted application classes.

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EventQueue()

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getNextEvent()
  Remove an event from the queue and return it.
peekEvent()
  Return the first event without removing it.
peekEvent(int)
postEvent(AWTEvent)
  Post a 1.1-style event to the EventQueue.

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EventQueue

      public EventQueue()

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postEvent

      public synchronized void postEvent(AWTEvent theEvent)

  Post a 1.1-style event to the EventQueue.

  Parameters:
    theEvent - an instance of java.awt.AWTEvent, or a subclass of it.

getNextEvent

      public synchronized AWTEvent getNextEvent() throws InterruptedException

  Remove an event from the queue and return it. This method will block until an event has been posted by another thread.

  Returns:
    the next AWTEvent

peekEvent

      public synchronized AWTEvent peekEvent()

  Return the first event without removing it.

  Returns:
    the first AWTEvent

peekEvent

      public synchronized AWTEvent peekEvent(int id)

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