Java, replacement for infinite loops?

Question

I am making a program that shows cellular growth through an array. I have gotten it so when I press the start button, the array updates every 10 seconds in a while(true){} l

Answer 1

I personally prefer using the Timer class rather than Thread or Thread.sleep(). The timer class handles both running the code periodically and canceling it.

Your code would look like:

TimerTask myTask = new TimerTask() {
  public void run() {
    // here goes my code
  }
};

Timer timer = new Timer();
timer.schedule(myTask, 0 /*starts now*/, 10 * 1000 /* every 10 seconds */);

// whenever you need to cancel it:
timer.cancel();