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Hi all,
I have a pretty simple, but frustrating problem with my JTextFields:

I want to apply some text, then pause, then apply some more text, then pause, etc..
Here's an example:

textField.setText( "1" );
try { Thread.sleep( 1000 ); } catch (Exception e) {}
textField.setText( "2" );
try { Thread.sleep( 1000 ); } catch (Exception e) {}
textField.setText( "3" );

Now, what this will do is:
pause for 2000ms, then, set the text field as "3"!!
I've tried using the repaint() method after each setText() line, but it makes no difference..

How do I go about doing this?

Thanks in advance,
[r.D]

gdrnec

Might be wrong here but I think that if you sleep the current thread, you sleep the thread that repaints the component.

Ih have done something similar for changing the current Time in a JLabel.

What I did was construct a small runnable whose responsibility it is to change the values of the JTextField independadly of the graphic thread.

e.g.

class Counter extends Thread {

JTextField field;
boolean breakCondition;

public Counter(JTextField field) {
this.field = field;
}

public void setBreakCondition(boolean flag) {
breakCondition = flag;
}

public void run() {
int i = 0;
while (!breakCondition) { // or break condition
field.setText("" + i);
this.sleep(1000);
}
}
}

I think this should work.

CEHJ

Try

javax.swing.Timer timer = new javax.swing.Timer(1000, new Incrementer());
timer.start();

class Incrementer implements ActionListener {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (++x >= 3) {
timer.cancel();
}
textField.setText("" + x);
}
}

CEHJ

Oh that code should have started with

int x = 0;

CEHJ

.... or to be more precise

x = 0; (where 'x'is an instance variable)

Mayank S

>> I think that if you sleep the current thread, you sleep the thread that repaints the component.

Exactly, you should not make the same thread sleep.

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CEHJ

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CEHJ

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