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Swing TIMER
hey guy,
I am trying to create a timer and i hope someone could help me to understand the following what do these lines of code mean?
I would like the timer to start to be set to 1 minute and the timer to go backwards so 60,59,58,57 etc..Timer timer = new Timer(1000, new TimerActionListener());// does this mean the speed? int count = 180;
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Re: Swing TIMER
The Timer will call your listener code at the frequency/interval that the code sets.
You can have that code do whatever you need done when it is called.
If you want to see when the listener is called, add a println() statement that prints out a message when it is called.
The place to start is the API doc. What does it say for each of the args to the Timer class's constructor?
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Re: Swing TIMER
the problem is that the timer is all set up but the timer is going 60,61,62,63 but i need to go 60,59,58,57etc...
Last edited by newtolearningjava; April 26th, 2014 at 06:10 PM.
Re: Swing TIMER
What line of code is changing the value of the "timer"?the timer is going 60,61,62,63
++ means to add 1
-- means to subtract 1
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Re: Swing TIMER
oh silly me.. one more on this. need to add it
Last edited by newtolearningjava; April 26th, 2014 at 06:11 PM.
Re: Swing TIMER
What happened when you used that code?
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Re: Swing TIMER
i am not entirely sure on how to add this in my code.
Last edited by newtolearningjava; April 26th, 2014 at 06:11 PM.
Re: Swing TIMER
What happened when you tried as in post#5?
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Re: Swing TIMER
when the code is run as stated in post#5 it is subtracting the digits and stops at 0.
I would like an message to appear when it hits 0 to say you ran out of time you loose or somthing.
Re: Swing TIMER
The code in post#5 shows a call to the JOptionPane method inside an if.
That is what I am talking about.if (count ==0){ JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "You loose", JOptionPane.DEFAULT_OPTION);
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Re: Swing TIMER
my bad i looked at the wrong post, originally i have added here in this code but i get this error:
Last edited by newtolearningjava; April 26th, 2014 at 06:11 PM.
Re: Swing TIMER
Sorry, that's a message from the IDE, but it hides what the compiler error is. You need to try another way to get the compiler's error message.
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Re: Swing TIMER
i have pressed ok?
Last edited by newtolearningjava; April 26th, 2014 at 06:12 PM.
Re: Swing TIMER
Does it go away and a new one comes immediately?how do i get it to go away when i have pressed ok?
To keep the Timer from continuing to call the listener, stop or cancel it.
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Re: Swing TIMER
thanks that did the trick
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