How do i create a delay before something is painted?

Question

hey, could someone tell me how to create a small delay for 2 seconds. I'm writing this program and when the user clicks on a black panel, the panel will change to show the image for 2 seconds and then turn black again. I know how to display an image and that, but I don't know how to make a delay? at the moment the repaint() method is gettin called too quickly and so the image is probably shown 4 a split second then changed back to black.
The following is just some simpler pseudo code to show my problem.
if(panelClicked) {
    displayImage = true;
    repaint()
//i'd want to put a two second delay here
panelClicked = false;
displayImage = false;
repaint();thanks

Answer 1

saru88 wrote:
well aren't u nice, "RTFM"..... READ THE F$%$ING MANUALWhat's not nice in reading the fine manual?
.I'm new to this whole swing thing and i'm doing my best to get this done before the dealine. I only started learning swing a couple of weeks ago and i do usually read those things but i'm programming it slightly differently and not sure abt the way to use things. Good to see ur a nice guy aye....Then you've got much bigger problems than learning Swing (namely, management, or organization, or self-organization problem). I've been through pressure too, for most of my short carrer, so I sympathize.
But in this case the manual is the spoon-fed javadoc link for javax.swing.Timer, and I'd add the tutorial's [1-page section|http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/misc/timer.html]. Skipping these 30mn reads has a low short-term gain, while the ROI (saved hours, possibly days, of debugging) of actually reading them is tremendous.