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Article #15849Re: How to let the main application sleep ?
From: V
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00
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I don't believe you'd want the main thread to sleep, because it's responsible for updating the display and then your application would appear to lock up for a while. If you're using Java 2, try the Timer class and use it to call one of your procedures in x milliseconds. Luigi Fonti <fonti@infn.it> wrote in message news:371F06EF.1C2628DE@infn.it... > 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 ? > The compiler doesn't allow calling these methods in the main > application: you can use them only in a trhead. > Luigi Fonti.
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