Making a loop hesitate.

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snewcrash - 03 Dec 2005 20:39 GMT

I'm new to java so sorry if this is a stupid question. I have a program
where I have 360 lines output. I need the screen to pause each time it
fills up. So far I made a for statement for lines 1-20, 20-45, etc. How
do I get the screen to pause at the end of each for statement? I've
been looking at Thread.sleep, but I'm unsure how to use it in my
program. This is what I have so far:

http://pastebin.com/447592

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Roedy Green - 03 Dec 2005 20:58 GMT

>I'm new to java so sorry if this is a stupid question. I have a program
>where I have 360 lines output. I need the screen to pause each time it
>fills up.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/console.html

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snewcrash - 03 Dec 2005 21:06 GMT

I looked there, and I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to point
out....

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Chris Smith - 03 Dec 2005 21:06 GMT

> I'm new to java so sorry if this is a stupid question. I have a program
> where I have 360 lines output. I need the screen to pause each time it
> fills up. So far I made a for statement for lines 1-20, 20-45, etc. How
> do I get the screen to pause at the end of each for statement? I've
> been looking at Thread.sleep, but I'm unsure how to use it in my
> program.

Easy:

try
{
Thread.sleep(500);
} catch (InterruptedException e) { }

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snewcrash - 03 Dec 2005 21:08 GMT

PERFECT! Just what I was looking for, thanks a lot. =)

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snewcrash - 03 Dec 2005 22:29 GMT

Ok, so I made separate for statements to block off each section of
output. Is there a way to do this without having all these for
statements?

My code: http://pastebin.com/447685

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mikkisingh@gmail.com - 03 Dec 2005 22:42 GMT

wouldn't a simple comparison of the counter work for u ? something like
...

for(counter =0 ; counter <....) {
//do ur stuff
if (counter == 20 || counter ==44 ....) {
Thread.sleep(....)
}
}

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VisionSet - 03 Dec 2005 23:37 GMT

> wouldn't a simple comparison of the counter work for u ? something like
> ...
>
> for(counter =0 ; counter <....) {
> //do ur stuff

if (counter % 20 == 0){

> Thread.sleep(....)
> }
> }

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snewcrash - 04 Dec 2005 00:18 GMT

just what i was looking for. thanks for everyones help.

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Monique Y. Mudama - 05 Dec 2005 23:49 GMT

> I'm new to java so sorry if this is a stupid question. I have a
> program where I have 360 lines output. I need the screen to pause
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
> http://pastebin.com/447592

I don't know your ultimate goal, but wouldn't it be better to wait on
user input every 20 lines or so?

asdfa
asdfa
fasafda
Press <Enter> to continue ...

That way, the user gets to decide how much time they need to digest
the data ...

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