GUI Threading problems

[shiftyayef 0]

Hi,

When trying to create a GUI for my script and initialise it in the "onStart" method, I am getting a persistent error:

The first one it throws is:

[ERROR] Swing threading error:: java.lang.Exception: State tracking must be done on Event Dispatch Thread. Try wrapping your method in SwingUtilities#invokeLater

Followed by:

13:35:03: [ERROR] java.awt.IllegalComponentStateException: contentPane cannot be set to null.

 

This is what I have wrapped in invokeLater, but it still throws the exception (GUI extends JFrame).

SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        GUI gui = new GUI("Shifty NMZ");
    }
});

My GUI is built using intellij's GUI designer forms - if I try and make a basic JFrame with only Swing, it doesn't throw an exception, so I'm a bit lost.

 

Does anyone know what the cause/solution could be?

Thank you

 

UPDATE:

My problem turned out to be related to the gradle configuration I was using to build my scripts. After creating a new project using Maven, creating an instance of the GUI inside SwingUtilities.invokeLater() worked fine. Leaving the rest of the post up in case anyone has similar issues in future.