facing isue with wait method in java

[Ramesh Sengani]

Hi,

I am working in site where i have search options.

I want that when user will click on search button, search should take minimum 5 seconds or more then that. In that period i want to show progressbar with advertisement.

[Alexander Kober]

You're looking in the wrong place.

The wait method is used to synchronize threads, not to delay a user interface update. What you want to do would look more like this:

public void search(){
  final long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
  showAdvertisement();
  doSearch();
  final long waitTime = 5000 - (System.currentTimeMillis() - startTime());
  if (waitTime > 0)
    Thread.sleep(waitTime);
  hideAdvertisement();
}

This example does not consider threading. If this were done in swing, for instance, you'd want to run the entire method on a worker and dispatch showAdvertisement() and hideAdvertisement() on the EDT, but i guess this is going too much into detail.