Controlling selenium through a Swing GUI

I've created a swing application that will essentially use selenium to monitor field values displayed on a website and log their results to a file. The reason I'm using a swing GUI is to allow users to easily input the fields they wish to monitor by adding it to a JList.

Everything is working fine but when I click the button "Start Monitoring" (which creates a selenium thread and runs it), the selenium thread completely takes over and does not allow any interaction with the swing GUI.

I would like a button on the swing GUI "Stop Monitoring" to stop selenium, but this isn't possible since because I can't interact with the swing GUI while selenium is ru开发者_JAVA百科nning.

Thanks in Advance

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Your selenium code is locking the EDT or the Event Dispatch Thread, Swing's main thread for user interaction and GUI painting. The solution is to call the selenium code in a background thread such as by using a SwingWorker object. You can read more on how to do this at the SwingWorker tutorial: Concurrency in Swing

Once you get this fixed, you should be able to get your "stop monitoring" JButton to work.