Animation Thread

Question

Hey, I have a program that performs an animation using a timer just like the Java Tutorial has for animations. The animation plots a histogram with data when the user clicks on a button. There is also some statistical data the pops up when the user clicks on the button. The statistical data shows up right away after the user clicks on the button, but the animation takes a few seconds. This makes perfect sense as the animation is a seperate thread. Well, my boss would like the statistical data to update after the animation is finished. I'm not sure at all how I would go about doing that.
Basically what I want to do is wait for the timer to stop before returning to the calling method:
timer.start();
// delay until timer is stopped.
return(1);I tried this, but it didn't work:
timer.start();
while(timer.isRunning());
return(1);Any help would be great!

Answer 1

I suggest giving the animation and the calculation of the statistical data their own functions, then calling each of them when the button is clicked. Example:
// The event handling code
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
// Test if the button is being pressed
if(e.getActionCommand() == "calculate")
doAnimation();
calculateData();
}Could you post some of your code? I might be able to give more specific help if so.
-Eric