stoppable timers?

Hello.

Sorry, this is a cross-post from the jpda forum, but as i had no anwser in weeks i had to try here too.

Here is the description of my problematic:

For one of my projects, swash, ( https://swash.dev.java.net ) which is an animation package for swing, i am confronted to problems during debugging.

Animations are time dependent and any breakpoint makes the debugging harder due to time flying continuously.

I went to jdk irc channels and Dalibor pointed me to the forward and backward capability of timers that can be probed within jvmti. None of us could find a way to set timers at certain time, stop them during breakpoints.

Is that possible?

Thank you for any idea.

[723 byte] By [frederic-pepe-barachanta] at [2007-11-27 2:55:22]