Hi I am here add delay BETWEEN the formation of each arc of a Rainbow using Thread.delay() so that it look like an animation. When I am using Thread.delay() it delays the whole process. Is there any other method or I am doing it wrong. Please help me solve the problem
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class RainBow2{
static int x,y,z;
static RainBowPanel rainBow = new RainBowPanel();
static StdRainBow stdRainBow = new StdRainBow();
static JTextField xCo = new JTextField(4);
static JTextField yCo = new JTextField(4);
static JTextField angle = new JTextField(4);
static JFrame frame;
public static void main(String[] args){
Color color = new Color(135,206,250);
frame = new JFrame("Rainbow");
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
JButton draw = new JButton("Draw RainBow");
draw.addActionListener(new ListenButton());
JLabel lab1 = new JLabel("X-Coordinate");
JLabel spaceLab = new JLabel(" ");
JLabel lab2 = new JLabel("Y-Coordinate");
JLabel angleLab = new JLabel("Initial Angle");
JButton chButton = new JButton("Change Color");
chButton.addActionListener(new ListenButton());
panel.setBackground(color);
panel.add(angleLab);
panel.add(angle);
panel.add(lab1);
panel.add(xCo);
panel.add(spaceLab);
panel.add(lab2);
panel.add(yCo);
panel.add(draw);
panel.add(spaceLab);
panel.add(chButton);
frame.getContentPane().add(BorderLayout.SOUTH,panel);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setSize(1366,740);
frame.setVisible(true);
rainBow.addMouseListener(new RainBowList());
frame.getContentPane().add(rainBow);
}
static class RainBowList extends MouseAdapter implements MouseMotionListener{
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){
x = e.getX();
y = e.getY();
rainBow.drawing(x, y, 0);
}
}
static class ListenButton implements ActionListener{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent a){
if(a.getActionCommand().equals("Draw RainBow")){
x = Integer.parseInt(xCo.getText());
y = Integer.parseInt(yCo.getText());
z = Integer.parseInt(angle.getText());
rainBow.drawing(x, y,z);
}
if(a.getActionCommand().equals("Change Color")){
rainBow.drawing(x, y,z);
}
}
}
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class RainBowPanel extends JPanel{
int x,y,z;
public void drawing(int xx, int yy, int zz){
Color color = new Color(135,206,250);
setBackground(color);
z = zz;
x = xx;
y = yy;
repaint();
}
public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
super.paintComponent(g);
int length = 300;
int width = 300;
x = x-length/2;
y = y-width/2;
for(int i =0 ; i< 7;i++){
Color color = new Color((int)(Math.random()*255),(int)(Math.random()*255),(int)(Math.random()*255));
g.setColor(color);
g.fillArc(x,y,length ,width ,z,180 );
x=x+15;
y=y+15;
length = (length-30);
width = (width-30);
try{
Thread.sleep(200);
}catch(Exception e){
}
}
}
}
}