At 02:43 27/4/01 +0100, Jim Downing wrote:
>Hi all,
>I'm having problems with a section of code in a custom task that attempts to
>stall execution for a period. My code uses
>
>Thread.currentThread().wait(sometime);
>
>but throws an IllegalMonitorStateException ("... a thread has attempted to
>wait on an object's monitor ... without owning the specified monitor. ")
>when the task executes.
>
>What gives? Can I get round it?
I think you are looking for sleep ... wait it a synchronisation primitive.
To use it you would go
Object o = ...;
synchronized( o )
{
o.wait( 1234 );
}
This would wait 1234 ms or until some one did a o.notify().
Cheers,
Pete
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