How can I change a timer's delay?

**chrishans** · 11-06-2011, 09:16 PM

Hi! I have a timer with its initial delay set at 200ms. and after some event happens I want to change it. What do I have to do to do this without creating a new timer? I am using a Swing timer.
What the timer does is repaint(), I think it should be taken into acount.

Thanks!!

**Norm** · 11-06-2011, 09:24 PM

Have you looked at the API doc to see if the Timer class has any methods that will do what you want?

**chrishans** · 11-06-2011, 10:04 PM

Yes, there's a setDelay method, but wherever I put it, I doesn't work as I want.

**Norm** · 11-06-2011, 10:07 PM

Do you have a small program you can post to demo your problem?
Can you explain how you want it to work.

**chrishans** · 11-08-2011, 04:49 PM

I am working on a Snake clone game. I have a timer which "moves" the snake every 200ms by changing the position of each square of the Snake, and then repaints. I want to change that delay, decrease it, when the score reaches, eg. 10, so that the snake moves faster.

**Norm** · 11-08-2011, 04:52 PM

I doesn't work as I want.

Can you explain what the problem is?
Can you make a small program that shows the problem?

**chrishans** · 11-08-2011, 05:00 PM

I'm so sorry! I don't know WTF happened, but now it works. I used the setDelay method, which I had already used but didn't work. I really don't know what I did wrong the other time.
Thanks for your time, anyway!!