com.dlsc.flexgantt.swing.timeline

Class TimeNowThread

java.lang.Object

java.lang.Thread

com.dlsc.flexgantt.swing.timeline.TimeNowThread

All Implemented Interfaces:

Runnable

public class TimeNowThread
extends Thread

A thread that is specialized on updating the time now variable inside the Eventline. This variable is used to express which time point will be considered to be the current time by the Gantt chart.

Since:

1.0

Version:

$Revision: 1.7 $

Author:

Dirk Lemmermann

See Also:

Eventline.setTimeNow(long), TimeNowLayer

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

Thread.State, Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
TimeNowThread(AbstractGanttChart gc) Constructs a new thread.
TimeNowThread(AbstractGanttChart gc, long delay) Constructs a new thread.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
long	getDelay() Returns the number of milliseconds to pause between two successive calls to the eventline.
void	run()
void	setDelay(long millis) Sets the number of milliseconds to pause between two successive calls to the eventline.
void	stopThread() Stops the thread.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, clone, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

TimeNowThread

public TimeNowThread(AbstractGanttChart gc,
                     long delay)

Constructs a new thread.

Parameters:

gc - the Gantt chart to which the eventline belongs that will be updated by the thread

delay - the number of milliseconds to pause before successive update calls

Since:

1.0

TimeNowThread

public TimeNowThread(AbstractGanttChart gc)

Constructs a new thread. The number of milliseconds to pause between two successive calls to the eventline defaults to 1000 (one second).

Parameters:

gc - the Gantt chart to which the eventline belongs that will be updated by the thread

Since:

1.0

Method Detail

getDelay

public long getDelay()

Returns the number of milliseconds to pause between two successive calls to the eventline.

Returns:

the delay in milliseconds

Since:

1.0

setDelay

public void setDelay(long millis)

Sets the number of milliseconds to pause between two successive calls to the eventline.

Parameters:

millis - the delay in milliseconds

Since:

1.0

run

public void run()

Specified by:

run in interface Runnable

Overrides:

run in class Thread

stopThread

public void stopThread()

Stops the thread.

Since:

1.0