Java mouseEvent timed setText?

[MobyDick]

Hi all,

I have a mouseEvent that when you hover on a label it changes the text on the label to let you know that the mouse is over the label.

Is there any way I can have the new text show for like 5 seconds and then revert back to the original text

Here's the code,I need something to replace the comment:

JLabel label2 = new JLabel("Mouse Entered Label", SwingConstants.CENTER);
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label2.addMouseListener(this);
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             public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e)
             { //start of mouseEntered

                    if(e.getSource() == label2)
                    {
                    label2.setText("Mouse Enter Recieved");
                    /* revert text to original after 5 seconds */
                    }

             } //end of mouseEntered

Thanks!

 

[kierenharrold]

Thread.sleep(5000);

should do the trick.

 

[Haircut]

Thread.sleep(5000);

should do the trick.

I'm more of a C# guy rather than a Java guy, but I know there are similar concepts in terms of a GUI message loop.
Doing that will just pause the current thread for a while and stop the GUI from updating.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

As above. Spawn a new thread to do it. And buy some glue to stick your hair back on after you've worked with multi-threading for a while

 

[PaulStat]

Something like this should do the trick

@Override
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {
	if(e.getSource() == label2) {
		String initialText = label2.getText();
		label2.setText("New Text");
		new Thread(new Runnable() {
			@Override
			public void run() {
				try {
					Thread.sleep(5000);
					label2.setText(initialText);
				} catch (InterruptedException e) {
					e.printStackTrace();
				}							
			}							
		}).start();
	}	
}