Space Shooter game help

Question

Im not sure if any one will be able to help me or not but Im a relatively new programmer and i am createing a space shooter type game and I am haveing some difficulties in wording my statements. Right now the way i have it set up I am able to fire only 1 shot from my ship but the shot hitting the enemy ship part works and i know it is only from this run statement i have becuase before i was able to shoot as much as i wanted. Like i said i doubt anyone will be able to help me without seeing more of my code but i thought id try.
//createing repaint timer
public void run(){   
while(true) {
try{//attempt to execute
createEnemy(); //create enemy
updateEnemy(); //update enemys
n.updateShots();      //update shots
//make the enemy explode if the shots x,y is close to the enemy x,y
for(int i=0;i<n.size;i++){  //n = ship function and size is place holder for number of shots
     if(n.shots[i] != null && n.shots.y - enemy[i].y >0&&n.shots[i].y - enemy[i].y<50){   //if the shot is hit in this y area the shot and enemy will delete
n.shots[i] = null;
enemy[i] = null;
}//end of if
     else{
          if(n.shots[i] != null &&n.shots[i].x - enemy[i].x >0&&n.shots[i].x - enemy[i].x<50){  //if the shot is hit in this x area the shot and enemy will delete
          n.shots[i] = null;     
          enemy[i] = null;
          }//end if
     }//end else
     }//end of for
     repaint();
     n.flame = false; //set flame to false so Flame is only true if Up is pressed
     Thread.sleep(100);
     }//end of try
     catch (InterruptedException e) {
}//end of catch
}//end of while
} //end of run

Answer 1

Why not use a timer here? If you are using Swing, then a Swing Timer is much better here than the ugly while(true).
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