edu.udo.cs.yale.gui
Class CheckForUpdatesThread

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      edu.udo.cs.yale.gui.CheckForUpdatesThread

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

public class CheckForUpdatesThread
extends java.lang.Thread

This class tries to connect a Yale server and checks if new versions of Yale are available. Saves the current date as last update check date in the user directory. If a new version is available, an info message is shown. Otherwise a failure dialog might be shown.

Version:

$Id: CheckForUpdatesThread.java,v 1.4 2006/03/21 15:35:40 ingomierswa Exp $

Author:

Ingo Mierswa

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

java.lang.Thread.State, java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

private MainFrame	mainFrame
private boolean	showFailureDialog
private static java.lang.String[]	VERSION_URLS

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

CheckForUpdatesThread(MainFrame mainFrame, boolean dialog)

Method Summary

void

run()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

VERSION_URLS

private static final java.lang.String[] VERSION_URLS

showFailureDialog

private boolean showFailureDialog

mainFrame

private MainFrame mainFrame

Constructor Detail

CheckForUpdatesThread

public CheckForUpdatesThread(MainFrame mainFrame,
                             boolean dialog)

Method Detail

run

public void run()

Specified by:

run in interface java.lang.Runnable

Overrides:

run in class java.lang.Thread