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| Chapter 19 java.awt Reference |

# EventQueue

## Name

EventQueue

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## Description

The `EventQueue` class is a facility for queuing Java 1.1 AWT events, either for the system or for some other purpose. You rarely need to create your own event queue; for most purposes, you will want to work with the system's event queue, which you acquire using the `Toolkit`.

## Class Definition

    public class EventQueue extends Object {
      // Constructor
      public EventQueue();
      // Instance Methods
      public synchronized AWTEvent getNextEvent() throws InterruptedException;
      public synchronized AWTEvent peekEvent();
      public synchronized AWTEvent peekEvent (int id);
      public synchronized void postEvent (AWTEvent theEvent);
    }

## Constructor

### EventQueue

#### public EventQueue()

Description

  Creates an `EventQueue` for your own use.

## Instance Methods

### getNextEvent

#### public synchronized AWTEvent getNextEvent() throws InterruptedException

Throws

  `InterruptedException`

    If the thread is interrupted before an event is posted to the queue.

Returns

  `AWTEvent` taken from the event queue.

Description

  Removes the next event from the event queue and returns it. If there are no events in the queue, this method will block until another thread posts one.

### peekEvent

#### public synchronized AWTEvent peekEvent()

Returns

  Next `AWTEvent` on the event queue.

Description

  Returns a reference to the next event on the queue without removing it from the queue.

#### public synchronized AWTEvent peekEvent (int id)

Parameters

  id

    Type of event to find.

Returns

  `AWTEvent` with the given type `id`; `null` if no event with the given type is currently in the queue.

Description

  Returns an event with the given type if one exists, but doesn't remove the event from the queue.

## See Also

`AWTEvent`, `Event`

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