Multithreading with automatically moving JButtons for Sliding Puzzle Solver

Question

I created a sliding puzzle program using java. And then, I continued to implement sliding puzzle solver program.The problem is that when I click "play the result" button, the program is to automatically slide valid squares to goal state like this n-puzzle-solver.appspot.com . I created this game using JButtons with two dimensional arrays like this(btnTiles[0][0]). Can I implement it with Multithreading? If I can, please teach me an example or give me a link for multithreading with automatically moving JButtons.

Answer 1

You may able to leverage the approach shown here , which paces the timing on a thread owned by an instance of javax.swing.Timer . The example moves all the tiles at each interval, but you can just move one in the List .

Answer 2

automatically moving JButtons.

wrong way to do it - leave the buttons alone, just change the icons (swap with blank)