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Article #15837Re: How to let the main application sleep ?
From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00
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Luigi Fonti <fonti@infn.it> writes: > In a thread, you can use sleep(millisecs) or wait(millisecs) to suspend > the activity. > But, how can you force the main application to sleep for a given time ? Well, the main() method is called from a thread. > The compiler doesn't allow calling these methods in the main > application: you can use them only in a trhead. Well, everything in Java runs in threads. Call Thread.sleep(); with the required try-block around it.
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