Initial Contribution
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+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ *  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ *  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ *  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ *  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ */
+/**
+ * @author Michael Danilov, Pavel Dolgov
+ * @version $Revision$
+ */
+package java.awt;
+
+import org.apache.harmony.awt.wtk.NativeEvent;
+import org.apache.harmony.awt.wtk.NativeEventQueue;
+
+class EventDispatchThread extends Thread  {
+    
+    private static final class MarkerEvent extends AWTEvent {
+        MarkerEvent(Object source, int id) {
+            super(source, id);
+        }
+    }
+
+    final Dispatcher dispatcher;
+    final Toolkit toolkit;
+    private NativeEventQueue nativeQueue;
+
+    protected volatile boolean shutdownPending = false;
+
+    /**
+     * Initialise and run the main event loop
+     */
+    @Override
+    public void run() {
+        nativeQueue = toolkit.getNativeEventQueue();
+
+        try {
+            runModalLoop(null);
+        } finally {
+            toolkit.shutdownWatchdog.forceShutdown();
+        }
+    }
+
+    void runModalLoop(ModalContext context) {
+        long lastPaintTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+        while (!shutdownPending && (context == null || context.isModalLoopRunning())) {
+            try {
+            EventQueue eventQueue = toolkit.getSystemEventQueueImpl();
+
+            NativeEvent ne = nativeQueue.getNextEvent();
+            if (ne != null) {
+                dispatcher.onEvent(ne);
+                MarkerEvent marker = new MarkerEvent(this, 0);
+                eventQueue.postEvent(marker);
+                for (AWTEvent ae = eventQueue.getNextEventNoWait(); 
+                        (ae != null) && (ae != marker); 
+                        ae = eventQueue.getNextEventNoWait()) {
+                    eventQueue.dispatchEvent(ae);
+                }
+            } else {
+                toolkit.shutdownWatchdog.setNativeQueueEmpty(true);
+                AWTEvent ae = eventQueue.getNextEventNoWait();
+                if (ae != null) {
+                    eventQueue.dispatchEvent(ae);
+                    long curTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+                    if (curTime - lastPaintTime > 10) {
+                        toolkit.onQueueEmpty();
+                        lastPaintTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    toolkit.shutdownWatchdog.setAwtQueueEmpty(true);
+                    toolkit.onQueueEmpty();
+                    lastPaintTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
+                    waitForAnyEvent();
+                }
+            }
+            } catch (Throwable t) {
+                // TODO: Exception handler should be implemented
+                // t.printStackTrace();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    
+    private void waitForAnyEvent() {
+        EventQueue eventQueue = toolkit.getSystemEventQueueImpl();
+        if (!eventQueue.isEmpty() || !nativeQueue.isEmpty()) {
+            return;
+        }
+        Object eventMonitor = nativeQueue.getEventMonitor();
+        synchronized(eventMonitor) {
+            try {
+                eventMonitor.wait();
+            } catch (InterruptedException e) {}
+        }
+    }
+
+    void shutdown() {
+        shutdownPending = true;
+    }
+
+    EventDispatchThread(Toolkit toolkit, Dispatcher dispatcher ) {
+        this.toolkit = toolkit;
+        this.dispatcher = dispatcher;
+        setName("AWT-EventDispatchThread"); //$NON-NLS-1$
+        setDaemon(true);
+    }
+
+}