[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: How to use achieve Thread.sleep behavior

[Chhil <aaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Emil,

Thanks for the link...

I was doing a thread.sleep inside a display.asynchexec , instead I 
created a new thread and went to sleep inside it (as the example does), 
the app does not freeze up.

-chhil

Emil Crumhorn wrote:
> Look at the animated gif example, that should give you an idea:
>
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet141.java?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
>
> Emil
>
> "Chhil" <aaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
> news:d5491s$fl3$3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > My drawing application need to do the following 3 steps.
> > 1.Display image 1.
> > 2.Display it for "n" seconds
> > 3.Display image 2.
> > So I display image 1, then do a Thread.sleep and then do a Display image 
> > 2. This freezes my system and am sure is not the right way to do this. Can 
> > someone suggest a correct way of achieving this?
> >
> > Thanks Chhil