Help needed on clearing concept regarding javax.swing.Timer.

Question

Hello,
I am not able to understand the concept of Timer. Say suppose
1) i extend JFrame and create my own frame object
2) i extend JPanel and create my own panel object
3) in frame object's constructor i create a panel's object
4) in panel object's constructor i create a Timer class's object and perform slideshow
5) after some time ( say when index reaches to 5 i stop timer using timerObj.kill() )
6) when this timer stops i want the panel object to be removed from frame. This means i need
to write some code in frame object's constructor that will wait till the timer is running and when it is stopped i would say remove(panelObject). But how to do this??
Thanks in advance ! :)

Answer 1

no i don't want to remove the panel within the statement that cancels the timer because basically i want to lot more things also like performing some other kind of animation etc. How can i remove from withing frame's constructor only?i tried the following things :-
try{
            Thread.currentThread().join();
catch(InterruptedException ex){           
while(panelObj.tmObj.isRunning()){
            try{
                Thread.currentThread().sleep(1000);
            catch(InterruptedException ex){
        }but none of them seems to work. When i write either of the above code nothing happens. Even the window does not appear :(
Edited by: Salman4u on Mar 31, 2009 9:07 PM