Java animation periodical action

Question

I have animation and I need it to periodically do something. How can I achieve that? I guess it could be done with another thread and sleep him for specified time. However I'm not sure about this solution.

Animation is very simple.

Answer 1

You will definitely want to use the Java Timing Framework. It was created by the guys that wrote Filthy Rich Clients which is about making very rich Swing apps. Writing your own timers/threads to do this is difficult to do right, plus the timing framework is clean and has helper methods ready to go.

Answer 2

if you want to moving with something in the Swing then you have to use javax.swing.Timer, example here