🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi

I wrote a Client Server applet.
In this project after the client send a message by clicking the "send"
button
the button is disabled until the client gets a response from the server.

I disabled the button using

button.setEnabled(false);
but when I did that the applet "froze " until the server sent the replay.

so I used a separate thread to control the button enabled state:
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somewhere in the applet class:
    btnSend.setEnabled(false);
      ButtonHandler button = new ButtonHandler();
      button.start();
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The button calss:
class ButtonHandler extends Thread {
  Applet1 myApplet = new Applet1();

  public void run() {

    while (myApplet.data[myApplet.friendTableRowNum][2] == null)
      try {
        sleep(500);
      } catch (InterruptedException ie) {}
    myApplet.requestFocus();
    myApplet.btnSend.setEnabled(true);
    myApplet.friendTableRowNum++;
  }
}

and here is my problem:
When I debug the program I can see that the application performs the code
but when I get back to the applet the button dosn't change the enabled to
true.