Problem with Thread.sleep

Never sleep in the Event Dispath Thread.

Your GUI will freeze and will not update until you exit the function.

Use a timer instead:

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

Read the article about threads and swing:

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/threads/threads1.html

Rodney_McKaya at 2007-7-10 13:05:51 >

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {

if (e.getSource() == pull) {

slot1.setIcon(all);

slot2.setIcon(all);

slot3.setIcon(all);

int delay = 3000; //milliseconds

ActionListener taskPerformer = new ActionListener() {

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {

newPic(slot1, slot2, slot3);

}

};

Timer timer = new Timer(delay, taskPerformer);

timer.setRepeats(false);

timer.start();

}

}

Rodney_McKaya at 2007-7-10 13:05:51 >