Process keypresses in a while loop

[Stretchwickster]

Hi,

This is probably an easy question, but how can you get the application to process keypresses if it is in a while loop. In another language called Delphi you can make a call to Application.ProcessMessages in the loop to see if a keypress is made. How do you do this in java?

Thread t = new Thread(accessOnlineLeaderboard);
t.start();
while (!connectionFinished){}
System.out.println("leaderboard highscores string: " + leaderboardHighscores);

The connectionFinished variable is set to true once an HTTP connection has been completed (within the thread t).

Any help would be much appreciated!


Clive

 

[Stretchwickster]

Actually, I've refined the code as follows:

Thread t = new Thread(accessOnlineLeaderboard);
t.start();
// Wait indefinitely for the thread to finish
try 
{
  t.join();
  // Finished
  System.out.println("leaderboard highscores string: " + leaderboardHighscores);
}

The thread assigns a value to leaderboardHighscores. So I want to wait until the thread has finished before displaying the scores. However, an "Is it OK to use airtime" screen appears and I am unable to click "yes" because the application is not processing keypresses while in the join method. So the question still stands!!

Clive

 

[stefanwagner]

Doesn't a KeyListener work for you?

 

[sedj]

KeyListener would indeed be a good idea, but anyway :

public class Test {

	public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
		String line = "";
		while (!line.equals("quit")) {
			System.out.println("Enter words, and press return ...");
			BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
			line = br.readLine();
			System.err.println("Entered : " +line);
		}
	}

}