Re: Newbie question:Thread and while loop???

From:
Lew <lew@nospam.lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Mon, 21 May 2007 10:51:19 -0400
Message-ID:
<UfednTBJgZ91LMzbnZ2dnUVZ_hSdnZ2d@comcast.com>
saturnlee@yahoo.com wrote:

SimpleThread cc= new SimpleThread("testing");
while ( cc.sleep(100)){

but i get the compile type error

            while ( Thread.sleep(100) ) {

 'void' type not allowed here. Java complains the sleep method is void
type.

class SimpleThread extends Thread {
    public SimpleThread(String str) {
        super(str);
    }
    public void run() {

            try {
                sleep(100);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                 e.printStackTrace();}
    }
}


beelzibub @ bawston school for idiots wrote:

thread t = new thread()


Did you mean Thread? Java is case sensitive. And needs semicolons at the end
of such statements.

t.sleep(1000);


The OP said "100", not "1000".

Programming is an art of precision. Carelessness is not a virtue in that
discipline.

Since sleep() is static you don't need to instantiate Thread. See the Javadocs.

The OP's problem is that they put a non-boolean expression in the condition of
the while loop, as Gordon Beaton explained, along with explaining the use of
Thread.sleep().

--
Lew

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