J2ME update gui while running MIDlet

Question

Hello all,
I've got a method in my MIDlet which is to show a new form for about 2 seconds and then revert back to the application. It already does all of it's calculations right but it simply does not update the GUI until after the 'return' statement.
Does anybody know why it does not update the GUI before waiting those two seconds and how could I make it do that? Below is my (greatly oversimplified) code.
     public int Throwing(int diceResult)
               Form fi = new Form( "Dice" );
               fi.append("lalala");
               getDisplay().setCurrent( fi );
          Thread currentThread = Thread.currentThread();
          try {
               synchronized(this)
               System.out.println("waiting");
                 wait( 2000 );
               catch ( InterruptedException ie )
                    System.out.println("Exception caught");
               System.out.println("Returning");
             return diceResult;
     }

Answer 1

What do you mean "the main 'UI' thread continues'. Of course it does. Otherwise your MIDlet becomes unresponsive, as you have seen.
I imagine what you want is something to be done when Throwing() finishes (like setting a new displayable with the results). In that case you have to make that part of the thread that calls Throwing(). Something like this, maybe:
public void run() {
  int result = Throwing(5);
  Form f = new Form("Results");
  f.append("The result is " + result);
  getDisplay().setCurrent(f);
}shmoove