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Heybob

Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:23 am


How do I create a delay in java?

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If I want to delay something in java, how would I do it? I know in turing there is a delay (*) but Im not sure what it is for java.


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Tony

Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:29 am



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I think you might be looking for sleep()


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xtreemboarder

Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:47 pm



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use this... put it in the same directory as your program... and in your program put "Delay.stop(int);" before whatever you want delayed.... just like in turing.


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xHoly-Divinity

Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:10 pm



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Our teacher taught us to use a useless for loop that runs like a million times :? . I guess that works as well :twisted:


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HellblazerX

Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:37 pm



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errrr not really, cuz you're delaying by the number of times your CPU can go through that for loop, so the slower comp you have, the longer delay you'll have.


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[Gandalf]

Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:49 am



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Our teacher taught us to use a useless for loop that runs like a million times :? . I guess that works as well :twisted:
This is far worse than using processes in Turing, and you know how bad that is.  Unless, of course, you have a constant frame rate, but even then using the Thread.sleep() method is what you should be using.


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codemage

Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:48 am



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public static void delay (int millisecs)
    {
        try
        {
            Thread.currentThread ().sleep (millisecs);
        }
        catch (InterruptedException e)
        {
        }
    }


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[Gandalf]

Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:08 am



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Note that you don't need to explicitly state that you're delaying currentThread(), Thread.sleep() should be sufficient, especially since you're probably only working with the default Thread.


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Martin

Fri Apr 28, 2006 3:49 am



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void delay_a_bit() {
  for (int i=0;i