How to make a Java program that will interrupt a thread.sleep() if the mouse is clikced?

Question

I have a Thread.sleep(100) line in my program. I want to interrupt the Thread.sleep if the mouse is clicked. What code would I write to do that?

This might help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1036754/difference-between-wait-and-sleep — pamphlet, Aug 22 '13 at 19:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 22 '13 at 19:18

Basically - don't. This is one of the reasons why Thread.sleep is discouraged. You should change it to a BlockingQueue.poll

// Thread.sleep(100);
blockingQueue.poll(100, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);

now you can stop the pause by pushing something into the blockingqueue at the other end.

You may even discover that you can increase the timeout too.

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