Display labels one at a time in a jbutton ActionListener

[switch hacker]

I have tried every way I can think of to solve this problem. I'm trying to display 4 labels when a person clicks on a jbutton. I want each label to be displayed one at a time rather than all at once. it appears that nothing will be displayed until the actionlistener has gone through the entire actionlistener class. Is this how actionListeners work? I've tried to put timedelays between label.setVisible(true);, but it doesn't matter, it still outputs all the labels at once.

PLEASE HELP!!!
THANKS IN ADVANCE

[Maneesh Godbole]

Welcome to the Ranch.

All GUI updates should happen on the Event Dispatch Thread. To solve your problem, you need to spawn a Runnable instance, encapsulate all your add label, wait etc logic inside it, and use it along with SwingUtilities#invokeLater
More details on threading in Swing can be found at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/index.html