Example

/** Painless asynchronous programming with Swing. */object ReadmeExample extends SimpleSwingApplication {    val dlButton = new Button("Download")  val charCount = new TextField { text = "0"; columns = 5 }    def top = new MainFrame {    title = "Scala-Async Test"    contents = new FlowPanel(dlButton, new Label("# Chars"), charCount)  }  listenTo(dlButton)  reactions += {    case ButtonClicked(`dlButton`) =>       charCount.text = ""      async {        // No blocking is involved here!        val akka = await { downloadAsync("http://www.akka.io/") }        val scala = await { downloadAsync("http://www.scala-lang.org/") }        // Access swing components directly        charCount.text = (akka.length + scala.length).toString      }  }    /** Downloads the content of the given url asynchronously. */  def downloadAsync(url: String): Future[String] = { ... }    ...}