Timer in Swing app - refreshing label

[qoqosz]

Hello,
my problem is very simple - I'd like to write an app with label text and start and quit buttons. When pressing the start button the label should update it's content every second. Here's my code (really poor :( )

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
 
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.Timer;

import java.lang.*;

public class TimerExample extends JFrame implements ActionListener
{
	JButton startButton = new JButton("Start");
	JButton quitButton 	= new JButton("Quit");
	JLabel 	myText 		= new JLabel("Timer");
	JPanel 	bottomPanel = new JPanel();
	JPanel 	holdAll 	= new JPanel();


	public TimerExample()
	{
		bottomPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
		bottomPanel.add(startButton);
		bottomPanel.add(quitButton);
 
		holdAll.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
		holdAll.add(bottomPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
		holdAll.add(myText, BorderLayout.CENTER);
 
		getContentPane().add(holdAll, BorderLayout.CENTER);
 
		startButton.addActionListener(this);
 
		setDefaultCloseOperation(DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
		
        quitButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() 
		{
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) 
			{
				System.exit(0);
			}
		}
		);
	}

	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		TimerExample myApplication = new TimerExample();
 
		myApplication.setLocation(400, 300);
		myApplication.setSize(250, 120);

		myApplication.setVisible(true);
	}
	
	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
	{
		if (e.getSource() == startButton)
		{
			myText.setText("new text");
		} else
		{
			myText.setText("?");
			System.out.println("?");
		}
	}
}

I'm new to java and simply don't know where and how to put some code here to update myText label every 1 second. Could you help?

[Eranga]

Ok, what you have tried with swing timer?

[qoqosz]

I tried to include the following function in code:

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
	{
		if (event.getSource() == startButton)
		{
			for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
			{
				Timer timer = new Timer(10000, this);
				timer.setInitialDelay(10000);
				timer.start();
				System.out.println(i);
				myText.setText("Lolo" + i);
			}
		}
		else
		{
			myText.setText("E ...?");
		}
	}

But with no success. I mean some text apeared in console but button didn't refresh.

[Eranga]

This is wrong. You have to perform the action within the timer. Look at the following example code segment.

And also you have start the timer in a loop 1o times. What the point of starting the timer in that way.

    public void labelRefresh(){
        // Initialize the timer, delay as you specified
        Timer timer = new Timer(10000, new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                  // Do your process here.
                  // Refreshing the label or whatever you want
            }
        });
        timer.start();
    }

[qoqosz]

Thank you :)

[Eranga]

You are welcome.

Did you get the point in my code segment and yours. Basically how timer bond with the action. Do you know anything about inner classes?