Delaying

[JSBN]

Uh... how do you do a delay in java?
ie: in turing

code:

delay(100)

[octopi]

I have no idea about java, or if this will even make sense to you, but a simple search on google spit out this

Thread.sleep(DELAY);

Where DELAY is a number, any number in milliseconds (I think)


http://www.google.com

[JSBN]

i tried it but it just screws up my program :/
Thx for trying tho

[Tony]

You could just run a huge forloop calculating garbage values to waste time

[rizzix]

JSBN wrote:

i tried it but it just screws up my program :/
Thx for trying tho

hey dude!
That is the way to do it.
You see the only problem it does not work is cuz u haven't caught the exception that is thrown by the static method sleep of the class Thread.

all you have to do is modify ur code to something like this..

code:

try {     bla;     bla;     Thread.sleep(100); } catch (InterruptedException e) {     System.out.println(e); }

basically make sure the Thread.sleep(int msec); is in the try block and that there is a following catch block to catch the InterruptedException exception. ^^

I'll have a tutorial on why we have this funny syntax in Java soon after my exams. You'll see this try/catch/final exception handling used extensively in Java. It's something u need to know.

I'm planning on comming out with more tutorials to explain these concepts and more..

[poseidon]

Is there possibly another way to delay without using try/catch and all that exception stuff?

dam .... doing java makes u appreciate the simplicity of turing .... one liners in turing are replaced w/ these long and complicated lines of bull in java.

[rizzix]

Turing isn't multi threaded.. Java on the other hand is.. Your application runs in the main thread.. form this thread u can create new threads..

since your application is a thread, it has to trap this interrupt exception.


if ur sure ur not going spawn new threads ur self then u can try this:

code:

public static void sleep(int msec) {     try {         Thread.sleep(msec);     } catch (InterruptedException e) {         System.out.println(e);     } }

now u can call this method without encapsulating it in a try/catch block. since the method it self handles the exception.

[poseidon]

hmmm ... alrite ill try ...

btw ..... this is probably a stupid q ... but wat does

code:

catch (InterruptedException e)

do?

and wat's the purpose of the try/catch commands?

is it used to "catch" or prevent errors or something

btw thx man

[SilverSprite]

Look in the tutorial section.. there is a tutorial on exception handling.