Is there a way to pause/resume the SwingWorker

Question

Is there a way to pause/resume the SwingWorker in Java ?

Answer 1

yes ,

1. Create a class extending SwingWorker.
2. Keep a static flag to make pause/resume mechanism in run method.

something like ..

while(){

sleep(1000);
if(shouldRun){

}  

}

Answer 2

You can pause the task you run in the swing worker by implementing something like this

while(true) {
   if(paused)
   {
       try {
           Thread.sleep(500); // half a second
           continue;
       } catch(InterruptedException e)
       {
       }
   }
}

It is not very nice though.