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I need to know how to do a delay in java?
e.g. I need the program to do something, wait 2 seconds, then do something else. Anyone able to help out?
StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list,
Wed 26 Jan 2005, 23:47,
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i haven't programmed java in over a yearbut i believe
an easy way to do it would to just make a module with a for loop that does nothing several thousand times and you can call that whenever you need. trial and error, for delay length, i believe. but there has to be a more elegant way to do it.
[edit: you can access the system clock, right? maybe you could do a while loop that stores the first value on the system clock and continues until that has progressed by two seconds. or maybe i'm making stuff up.]
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Wed 26 Jan 2005, 23:49,
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an easy way to do it would to just make a module with a for loop that does nothing several thousand times and you can call that whenever you need. trial and error, for delay length, i believe. but there has to be a more elegant way to do it.
[edit: you can access the system clock, right? maybe you could do a while loop that stores the first value on the system clock and continues until that has progressed by two seconds. or maybe i'm making stuff up.]
javatry Thread.sleep(2000);
java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.html#sleep(long)
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Wed 26 Jan 2005, 23:55,
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java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.html#sleep(long)
*shudder*use the sleep();. eg
sleep(1000);
Is 1 second. That currunt thread will then go down had have 40 winks. I read this in my good old Java for Students book a classic with a picture of a mouse on the front.
(sleep(1000);
Is 1 second. That currunt thread will then go down had have 40 winks. I read this in my good old Java for Students book a classic with a picture of a mouse on the front.
MrA,
Wed 26 Jan 2005, 23:57,
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thank youand thanks to kp too.
*goes to try*
(*goes to try*
StickFigureNinja is worried he may be on the list,
Thu 27 Jan 2005, 0:04,
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