Using ActionListener with a Timer Object

[bumblyb33]

Hellooo

Can someone please have a look at this code and telling me what I'm doing wrong. I'm trying to get a message printed every two seconds but whenever I run the program, nothing is printed.

import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;

import javax.swing.Timer;


public class Testing {

	private int id;
	
	public Testing(int id)
	{
		this.id = id;
	}
	
	public void setTime(GregorianCalendar appt)
	{
	//	GregorianCalendar now = new GregorianCalendar();
	//	this.appt = appt; //(int)appt.getTimeInMillis()-(int)now.getTimeInMillis()+10
		Timer t = new Timer (2000, new ActionListener ()
        {
         public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent e)
          {
        	 System.out.println("You have an appointment in 10 minutess.");
          }
        });
		
		t.start();
		
	}
	
	public boolean equals(int otherId)
	{
		if(this.id == otherId)
			return true;
		else
			return false;
	}
	

}

import java.util.GregorianCalendar;


public class Tester {

	public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		
		Testing appt = new Testing(1);
		GregorianCalendar date = new GregorianCalendar(2009, 3, 4, 13,45);
		appt.setTime(date);
		
	}

}

I'm supposed to use the date as an argument, but I'm using 2000ms just for now to test it, so that's why the GregorianCalendar is commented.

Thx

[Steve11235]

javax.swing.Tmer is designed to run the listening method on the Event Dispatcher Thread, which is where all work for Swing components takes place. Since you don't have any active Swing components, I don't know what the Timer would do, quite possibly nothing. Is that what you are seeing?

Create a simply Swing UI and have the Timer ActionPerformed update the UI.

[Fubarable]

Either that, or if this is never to be used in a Swing program, then look into using java.util.Timer instead.