Stopping a Timer from Inside the timer

[krishnan]

Hi ,

I've hit upon an interesting problem . Here's my code

public class ToggleAnnotationsAction{

// Lots of things needed for the class

public void myMethod(ActionEvent e ){
Timer timer = new Timer(10, new ActionListener() {
private long panFrame = curFrame;
private long endFrame = approxFrame;
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
if(myDir == Direction.FORWARD){
if (panFrame >= endFrame) {
//Stop the Timer and exit
}
//Do something
}
else if(myDir == Direction.BACKWARD){
if (panFrame <= endFrame) {
// Stop the Timer and exit
}
}
}
} );
timer.start();
// This is where i want the control after the execution and return
return;
}
}

What i'm trying to do is stop my timer when a specific condition has been reached .
Any ideas of how this can be done ?

Thanks in advance
Krishnan

[Norm]

Let me restate part of your question.
You want the thread that calls the timer.start() method to wait until the timer thread ends before continuing to the return
statement?

Then why put it on a timer? Just call it and await its return.

stop my timer when a specific condition has been reached .

What happens if you call stop for the timer and exit? Have you tried it?

[Fubarable]

I could see how you could want to stop the timer if this is say a simple animation. To get a handle on the Timer from within its ActionListener, you would call getSource() on the ActionEvent object passed into the actionPerformed method. For example:

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
if(myDir == Direction.FORWARD) {
   if (panFrame >= endFrame) {
      //Stop the Timer and exit
      Timer timer = (Timer)evt.getSource();
      timer.stop();
      return;
   }
}