You have a lot of reading ahead of you. From compiler errors through exception handling, threading and thread interruptions. But this will do what you want: try { Thread.sleep(1000); //1000 milliseconds is one second. } catch(InterruptedException ex) { Thread.currentThread().interrupt(); }
Never use Thread.sleep() when code is executing on the Event Dispatch Thread. Instead you should use a Swing Timer to schedule your animation. See the sections from the Swing tutorial on: Concurrency in Swing How to Use Timers Or if you don’t want to use a Timer, then you can use a SwingWorker (as described … Read more
One difference is that System.Threading.Timer dispatches the callback on a thread pool thread, rather than creating a new thread every time. If you need this to happen more than once during the life of your application, this will save the overhead of creating and destroying a bunch of threads (a process which is very resource … Read more
JS does not have a sleep function, it has setTimeout() or setInterval() functions. If you can move the code that you need to run after the pause into the setTimeout() callback, you can do something like this: //code before the pause setTimeout(function(){ //do what you need here }, 2000); see example here : http://jsfiddle.net/9LZQp/ This … Read more
Use time.sleep() from time import sleep sleep(0.05)
This indicates a mis-understanding of sleep functions. The parameter you pass is a minimum time for sleeping. There’s no guarantee that the thread will wake up after exactly the time specified. In fact, threads don’t “wake up” at all, but are rather chosen for execution by the OS scheduler. The scheduler might choose to wait … Read more
You really should be using something like the Tkinter after method rather than time.sleep(…). There’s an example of using the after method at this other stackoverflow question. Here’s a modified version of your script that uses the after method: from time import time, sleep from Tkinter import * def empty_textbox(): textbox.delete(“1.0”, END) root = Tk() … Read more
In C++11, you can do this with standard library facilities: #include <chrono> #include <thread> std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::milliseconds(x)); Clear and readable, no more need to guess at what units the sleep() function takes.
The accuracy of the time.sleep function depends on your underlying OS’s sleep accuracy. For non-realtime OS’s like a stock Windows the smallest interval you can sleep for is about 10-13ms. I have seen accurate sleeps within several milliseconds of that time when above the minimum 10-13ms. Update: Like mentioned in the docs cited below, it’s … Read more
If you want to pause then use java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit: TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(1); To sleep for one second or TimeUnit.MINUTES.sleep(1); To sleep for a minute. As this is a loop, this presents an inherent problem – drift. Every time you run code and then sleep you will be drifting a little bit from running, say, every second. If this … Read more