java thread.sleep puts swing ui to sleep too

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You are correct about the code putting the UI to sleep. Since sleep is called on the Event Dispatch Thread (the thread responsible for running the gui) the UI stops processing events and ‘goes to sleep’.

I think what you want is a javax.swing.Timer.

Timer t = new Timer(1000 * 5, new ActionListener() {
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        // do your reoccuring task
    }
});

This will cause your reoccurring task to be performed off of the EDT, and thus it wont leave your ui unresponsive.

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