Making a loop hesitate.

[snewcrash]

I'm new to java so sorry if this is a stupid question. I have a program
where I have 360 lines output. I need the screen to pause each time it
fills up. So far I made a for statement for lines 1-20, 20-45, etc. How
do I get the screen to pause at the end of each for statement? I've
been looking at Thread.sleep, but I'm unsure how to use it in my
program. This is what I have so far:

http://pastebin.com/447592

 

[Roedy Green]

I'm new to java so sorry if this is a stupid question. I have a program
where I have 360 lines output. I need the screen to pause each time it
fills up.

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/console.html

 

[snewcrash]

I looked there, and I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to point
out....

 

[Chris Smith]

I'm new to java so sorry if this is a stupid question. I have a program
where I have 360 lines output. I need the screen to pause each time it
fills up. So far I made a for statement for lines 1-20, 20-45, etc. How
do I get the screen to pause at the end of each for statement? I've
been looking at Thread.sleep, but I'm unsure how to use it in my
program.

Easy:

try
{
Thread.sleep(500);
} catch (InterruptedException e) { }

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[snewcrash]

PERFECT! Just what I was looking for, thanks a lot. =)

 

[snewcrash]

Ok, so I made separate for statements to block off each section of
output. Is there a way to do this without having all these for
statements?

My code: http://pastebin.com/447685

 

[mikkisingh]

wouldn't a simple comparison of the counter work for u ? something like
....

for(counter =0 ; counter <....) {
//do ur stuff
if (counter == 20 || counter ==44 ....) {
Thread.sleep(....)
}
}

 

[VisionSet]

wouldn't a simple comparison of the counter work for u ? something like
...

for(counter =0 ; counter <....) {
//do ur stuff

if (counter % 20 == 0){

 

[snewcrash]

just what i was looking for. thanks for everyones help.

 

[Monique Y. Mudama]

I'm new to java so sorry if this is a stupid question. I have a
program where I have 360 lines output. I need the screen to pause
each time it fills up. So far I made a for statement for lines 1-20,
20-45, etc. How do I get the screen to pause at the end of each for
statement? I've been looking at Thread.sleep, but I'm unsure how to
use it in my program. This is what I have so far:

http://pastebin.com/447592

I don't know your ultimate goal, but wouldn't it be better to wait on
user input every 20 lines or so?

asdfa
asdfa
fasafda
Press <Enter> to continue ...

That way, the user gets to decide how much time they need to digest
the data ...