Update JLabel every X seconds from ArrayList - Java

Question

I have a simple Java program that reads in a text file, splits it by \" \" (spaces), displays the first word, waits 2 seconds, displays the next... etc... I would like to do

Answer 1

    import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;

import javax.swing.*;


class TimeThis extends JFrame {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    private ArrayList words;
    private JTextField _textField;  // set by timer listener

    public TimeThis() throws IOException {

        _textField = new JTextField(5);
        _textField.setEditable(false);
        _textField.setFont(new Font("sansserif", Font.PLAIN, 30));

        JPanel content = new JPanel();
        content.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
        content.add(_textField); 

        this.setContentPane(content);
        this.setTitle("Swing Timer");
        this.pack();
        this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        this.setResizable(false);
        _textField.setText("loading...");

        readFile(); // read file
        printWords(); // print results
    }

    public void readFile(){

        try {
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("adameve.txt"));
            words = new ArrayList();
            int lineNum = 1; // we read first line in start

            // delimeters of line in this example only "space"
            char [] parse = {' '};
            String delims = new String(parse);

            String line = in.readLine();
            String [] lineWords = line.split(delims);

            // split the words and create word object
            //System.out.println(lineWords.length);

            for (int i = 0; i < lineWords.length; i++) {
                Word w = new Word(lineWords[i]); 
                words.add(w);                                      
            }
            lineNum++;    // pass the next line

            line = in.readLine();

            in.close();

        } catch (IOException e) {
        }
    }
    private void printWords() {
            final Timer timer = new Timer(100, null);

            ActionListener listener = new ActionListener() {
                private Iterator w = words.iterator();
                @Override 
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    if (w.hasNext()) {
                        _textField.setText(w.next().getName());
                        //Prints to Console just Fine...
                        //System.out.println(w.next().getName());   
                    }
                    else {
                        timer.stop();
                    }
                }
            };
            timer.addActionListener(listener);
            timer.start();

    }
    class Word{
        private String name;

        public Word(String name) {
            this.name = name;
        }
        public String getName() {
            return name;
        }    
    }   

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        JFrame ani = new TimeThis();
        ani.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        ani.setVisible(true); 

    }
}

I got it working with this code... Hope it can help someone else expand on their Java knowledge. Also, if anyone has any recommendations on cleaning this up. Please do so!