Your listener on the port should be a seperate thread....that thread will keep listening to the events asynchronously...In the main thread, you can put Thread.sleep and make that wait.
Hope it helps. +Deepak. ********************************** Silence is safer than speech. ********************************** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "JDJList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:26 AM Subject: [jdjlist] Thread.sleep problem...Please help > Hi All, > > I am doing a Java application right now. In this application, some actions > need to be taken only after few seconds. I thought Thread.sleep is the good > way to do it but while the program is sleeping, my com port listener will be > unable to perform any action. > So may I know what is the best way to make the action few seconds later but > the com port listener still listening the coming event? > Hope can help. Thank you. > > > > > > Steven > > > To change your membership options, refer to: > http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > To change your membership options, refer to: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm
