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Gil · Guest

I'm trying to display multiple frames with a pause of a few seconds
between
the display of each frame. I have the following code, but the swing
components of each frame will not appear before the pause starts. The
components only flash on the screen before the frame disappears and
the next frame appears which is also blank until just before it
appears.

Would anyone know what I might be doing wrong?

Thank you.

Gil

code :

Frame routine :

for (int i=0;i FrameViewing fe = new FrameViewing(currFileList[i]);
fe.setSize(new Dimension(290,149));
fe.setLocation(345,90);
fe.setTitle("Frame :");
fe.setVisible(true);
fe.pause(5000);
fe.setVisible(false);
}

components set in FrameViewing constructor :

public FrameViewing(String filename) {
JPanel contentPane = (JPanel)this.getContentPane();
contentPane.setLayout(null);

// label
JLabel ds_l = new JLabel();
ds_l.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 1, 14));
ds_l.setText("Filename :");
addComponent(contentPane, ds_l, 22,27, 190,20);

JLabel dsa_l = new JLabel();
dsa_l.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 0, 12));
dsa_l.setText(filename);
addComponent(contentPane, dsa_l, 99,27, 190,20);

JLabel fet_l = new JLabel();
fet_l.setFont(new java.awt.Font("Dialog", 0, 12));
fet_l.setText("pause . . . ");
addComponent(contentPane, fet_l, 40,67, 140,20);

}

pause routine :

void pause(int msec) {
try
{
Thread T = new Thread();
// ask currently executing Thread to sleep for msec ms
T.sleep(msec);
}
catch(InterruptedException e)
{
System.out.println("Sleep interrupted:"+e);
}
}

Thomas Weidenfeller · Guest

Gil wrote: