Creating Timer

[TesL lian]

How am i suppose to create a timer? i am looking for something to replace my Thread.sleep which seems to be slowing down my program.

  model.renderer.render();
TransformUtil.moveModelTo(model,TransformUtil.BoundingBoxPosition.Center);			
Transform transform=new Transform();
transform.setPosition(new Vector3f((float)pts.elementAt(time).x,(float)pts.elementAt(time).y,(float)pts.elementAt(time).z));
TransformUtil.transform(model,transform);
	try{Thread.sleep(50);
	}catch (Exception e){};
time++;  

[Ulf Dittmer]

If Thread.sleep slows down the code, why do you have it in there?

[TesL lian]

i am looking for some sort of delays which does not affect my rendering loop. is there other recommendation? actually what i need is something more real-time then i can keep track of the different time for the different location.

[Rob Spoor]

In what thread do you do the rendering? Is this is Swing application, or something else?

In Swing, you can use javax.swing.Timer combined with an ActionListener.

[Daesung Park]

Take a look at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/concurrent/ScheduledExecutorService.html#scheduleAtFixedRate(java.lang.Runnable,%20long,%20long,%20java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit) and its implementing classes.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Sounds like a Swing-related question which I ought to move.

[TesL lian]

Solved. Thanks all for your help.