Timer help

[natasha9449]

Hi.. i have a small doubt in Java and was wondering if you could help me..

I need to set a timer for my desktop GUI application... after the timer expires it should give a message saying that time is up!

How can i do this?? i've googled it.. and i need to use "timer", but timer is for invoking something after a delay... so.. what should i do??

[sandeepsandeep]

Timer class does not offer real-time guarantees: it schedules tasks using the Object.wait(lon g) method

[BigDaddyLH]

Timer class does not offer real-time guarantees: it schedules tasks using the Object.wait(lon g) method

I don't see the relevance of this comment. Why should a "Times up!" message need a hard real-time guarantee?

Anyhowdy, to learn more about javax.swing.Tim er, take the tutorial on it:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/timer.html

[JosAH]

Why should a "Times up!" message need a hard real-time guarantee?

Maybe because you don't want MaryAnn to turn in her work on time and have
BillyBob peek around for another ~ 1/100 second or so?

kind regards,

Jos ;-)