Oh ok, I see. Well sort of, haha. I have a lot of reading to do on threads now.
Thanks a lot for the tip! On Nov 12, 7:03 pm, Justin Anderson <janderson....@gmail.com> wrote: > The UI won't update until after you leave the onClick method... > > Either spawn a new thread or start a background service to do the waiting > for you... > > On Nov 12, 2009 4:23 PM, "ElPollo Diablo" <hackas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have a simple app that just changes the state of an image when you > press a button, waits 3 seconds, then changes back. The problem I am > seeing that that when it seems to sleep without changing the view to > show the state change, then when it is done, it changes back to the > original state, so to the user, it looks like nothing changed at all. > I may be way off in what I am thinking, but that seems to be the case, > as I can tell the sleep is working. > > The code I have for the on click listener is: > > press.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() { > > public void onClick(View v) { > bButtonBlue.setSelected(true); > > try { > Thread.sleep(3000); > } catch (InterruptedException e) { > e.printStackTrace(); > } > > bButtonBlue.setSelected(false); > > } > }); > } > > Any ideas that could point me in the right direction would be much > appreciated. > > Thank you > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Beginners" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<android-beginners%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en