Pauses (or delays rather....)

[Windoze]

Hey i was wondering if anyone knew how to make the code pause for a specified interval of time, at any place in the code that you place it.

thank you in advance.

[lk9865]

Which IDE are you using?
if you are using Netbeans then what you can do is click on the line number once and you will see a red square pop up and then you can click on run->debug
it will run the program up until the red square and then you can click on play button to run the program line by line

[hardwired]

You have two choices:
1 — use a Swing Timer with non-repeating delay, ie, one–time use. There's a page in the tutorial that discusses the use of Swing Timers: How to Use Swing Timers.
2 — use a thread:

Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
        try {
            Thread.sleep(3000);
        } catch(InterruptedException e) {
            System.out.println("interrupt");
        }
    }
}).start();

This will halt everything: gui response, gui updates, etc; the app will appear to freeze.