Thread sleep prevents my Swing application from executing

Question

What\'s is happening to my application makes sense but I don\'t know how to fix it. Here\'s a brief description of what my application does: A timer window should be display at

Answer 1

Does anyone know how to make my application execute while having a thread.sleep()

Don't use a Thread.sleep().

Instead use a Swing Timer. You set the Timer to fire every second so you components can be updated.