How can I wait until a Swing.Timer has finished?

Question

I have a Swing.Timer runing which displays some animated text (more precisely it fades out a text with a delay of 50 until all characters are erased.
Afterwards a time consuming operation shall begin. How can I achieve that this operation waits to start until the text has been faded out? The time to fade out the text depends on the length of the text, of course.
So, how can I make the operation waiting until the Timer has finished its work?
Thanks,
Dirk

Answer 1

dirku wrote:
I have a Swing.Timer runing which displays some animated text (more precisely it fades out a text with a delay of 50 until all characters are erased.
Afterwards a time consuming operation shall begin. How can I achieve that this operation waits to start until the text has been faded out? The time to fade out the text depends on the length of the text, of course.
So, how can I make the operation waiting until the Timer has finished its work?I gave you an answer to this with sample code yesterday:
[http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5294087&messageID=10244564#10244564|http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5294087&messageID=10244564#10244564]
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
            if (sb.length() > 0)
                sb.deleteCharAt(0);
                label.setText(sb.toString());
            else
                label.setForeground(color);
                label.setText(text);
                Timer timer = (Timer)e.getSource();
                timer.stop();
                // ***** start process here ***
        }The timer here continues until a condition is satisfied (here it's where the Stringbuffer that holds the text that is sent to the JLabel is empty). So all you have to do is place any code that needs to happen when the Timer ends in the else block. It's so simple as to be trivial.