How to stop thread.sleep from stopping entire JFrame

Question

This is probably a quick and newbie fix but I am desperate at the moment. When I use a Thread.sleep, it stops the whole JFrame, is there a quick fix for this?

Sample code

public  void delay() throws InterruptedException {
    //Construct to create a delay.  
    Thread.sleep (30);
}

Answer 1

If its just a delay you want to implement, javax.swing.Timer is a good option. You could use it like this:

    public void delay(){
        Timer timer = new Timer(30, new ActionListener() {
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
                //do stuff after delay
            }
        });
        timer.start();
    }

This could probably be improved on if you showed more code. You can find a tutorial HERE .