Re: Need time waster code or something.

Ok, this is me from another account.

I had something like that, Audrey, and it works, but switched it to a
timer to try to solve my current problem.

NOW, I need to flash some buttons in succession, and not overlap each
other.

Here's my code for flashing the button:

    public void flashButton()
    {
        buttonFlash bf = new buttonFlash();
    }

    public class buttonFlash
    {
        Toolkit toolkit;
        Timer timer;

        public buttonFlash()
        {
            toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
            timer = new Timer();
            //button.setIcon(onIcon);
            timer.schedule(new RemindTask(), 250, 250);
            button.setIcon(offIcon);
        }

        class RemindTask extends TimerTask
        {
            public void run()
            {
                button.setIcon(onIcon);

                System.exit(0); //Stops the AWT thread
                                  //(and everything else).
            }
     }

    }

Here's the code for calling button flashes in succession:

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
        Object source = e.getSource();
        if (source == exitButton)
        {
            System.exit(0);
        }
        else if (source == runButton)
        {
            // reset values and counter
            blueButton.resetGame();

            blueButton.flashButton();

            try
            {
                Thread.sleep(250);
            }
            catch (InterruptedException ie) {}

            redButton.flashButton();
            greenButton.flashButton();
            yellowButton.flashButton();

        }

        else if (source == validateButton)
        {
            //check answers against generated values
        }

    }

The code between the blueButton and the redButton does not do the job.
In fact, most of the time, I can't see the blueButton flash, but it
does sometimes, and partially other times, so I know its going off.

So, how do I put a lag between these flashButton calls?