about pausing of execution

hi ,

is there any way to pause execution of a part of java program for a particular time without using Thread.sleep() method


thanks,


bye
kalyan

Hi,

Well, there is Thread.suspend, but it's deprecated. Anyway, why would
you like to do that? (I mean, your question is quite vague. Tell us more
and we might be able to help.)

Petr

hi

in my program , iam having 2 methods which display screens on screen ,
and iam calling them sequentially , hence iam not able to see the output of first method .so i want to pause execution of my program for some time at end of first method and before the second , so that i can view outputs of both

i was restricted not to use Thread concept , pls help me , is there is any other way to over come this


bye
kalyan

You could put in code that waits for some user input before proceeding, a bit like C's getch()

For example,



displays 'Hello', and then waits for the user to press Enter, before displaying 'World'.

Would this solve your problem?

hello,

i had nothing to input from user


bye

kalyan

This is pretty ugly, and pretty much locks up the app, but you could do:

hi Jason Fox ,

thanks for ur help


bye

kalyan

i was restricted not to use Thread concept

This is a rather vague restriction. Does this mean you can't use threads? If so, you can't start a JVM (which uses threads), and therefore, the problem is outside the scope of Java.
Does it mean you can't use the java.lang.Thread API? If so, perhaps your teacher is hinting at the use of Object wait/notify/notifyAll.

It is important to note that you can NEVER have a thread pause for a specific period of time - you can however, have a thread pause for at least a specific period of time. When that thread comes out of 'sleep' state it is put into 'ready for execution' state - not 'running' state. It is up to the indeterminate thread scheduler to decide when the thread is shifted to 'running' state.