is there a way to pause java?

[zhangster]

so i am making a program with a GUI. I need the user to enter some data before the rest of my program is run. So, i was wondering if there was some way to pause the program until the user clicks my button (my GUI button).

[m00nchile]

The usual way to make GUIs is to make them event driven, i.e. do something based on an event that happens, such as pressing a button or entering text, so you don't pause the program, but leave the program idle until something happens. See a few tutorials about using ActionListeners, things should be clearer then.

[zhangster]

yea that is what i want to do. i want to leave the program idle. any ideas how to do it?

	class enterp implements ActionListener
		{
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent enterpressed)
			{
				gues = guess.getText();
				System.out.println(gues);
			}
		}
		enterp entered = new enterp();
		guess.addActionListener(entered);
		
		try {
		Thread.sleep(6000);
		} catch(InterruptedException e) {
		} 
		double answer = Double.parseDouble(gues);
		System.out.println(answer);

in my code, while waiting for the user to press enter, the program runs the

double answer = Double.parseDouble(gues);
		System.out.println(answer);

this results in an error since gues is a null...any ideas on how to not run that 2 lines of code before the user presses enter?

[m00nchile]

You would do that by calling the method you want to run from inside the actionPerformed() method. So, while there is no input, the program does nothing, when you press the button, you execute the piece of code you want to.

[Fubarable]

Agrees with moon. What you want to achieve is already done for you with the Swing event-driven programming model. The last thing that you want to do is to call Thread.sleep(...) inside of your GUI code.