Using the Swing timer to hide a notification temporarily

Question

I use Swing Timer to do webNotification , a custom JFrame will appear at a specific time. I want the user to be able to click the "Hide" button, which rejects the notification and forces him to return in an hour. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

javax.swing.Timer has an initial delay; just set it to 60 * 60 * 1000 . Your actionPerformed() will be called an hour after calling start() .

Appendix: Here is an example of a button that hides it, closing the window for a certain period of time.

 import java.awt.EventQueue; import java.awt.GridLayout; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.Timer; /** @see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4373493 */ public class TimerFrame extends JFrame { private void display() { this.setTitle("TimerFrame"); this.setLayout(new GridLayout(0, 1)); this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); this.add(new TimerButton("Back in a second", 1000)); this.add(new TimerButton("Back in a minute", 60 * 1000)); this.add(new TimerButton("Back in an hour", 60 * 60 * 1000)); this.pack(); this.setLocationRelativeTo(null); this.setVisible(true); } /** A button that hides it enclosing Window for delay ms. */ private class TimerButton extends JButton { private final Timer timer; public TimerButton(String text, int delay) { super(text); this.addActionListener(new StartListener()); timer = new Timer(delay, new StopListener()); } private class StartListener implements ActionListener { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { TimerFrame.this.setVisible(false); timer.start(); } } private class StopListener implements ActionListener { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { timer.stop(); TimerFrame.this.setVisible(true); } } } public static void main(String[] args) { EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { new TimerFrame().display(); } }); } }