Question

I’ve basically done this but my when I run the app, it runs the thread too many times too quickly before freezing.
Looking to have my thread run through once, pause and then start the thread again.

I have tried:

                while (running.get()) {
        Thread threadstart = new Thread()
        {
        public void run(){

            try {

        Thread.sleep(integerTime);

and then had

 threadstart.start(); 

at the end. This is my exact code just with all the processes taken out.

All advice appreciated.

Answer 1

You’re sleeping in the new thread – so your while loop will keep spawning new threads at a very fast rate, each of which will sleep.

Why not just create one thread which has the loop?

Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
    @Override public void run() {
        while (running.get()) {
            try {
               Thread.sleep(integerTime);
               // Do work
            }
        }
    }
};
thread.start();