Question

I’ve searched for a solution for my problem all over but I cannot find anything close. Here is my problem: I have just started to learn Swing in Java and I have an application that will click randomly between a min and max amount of time. The user enters a min and max time and clicks a button which starts this code:

    class CalcButtonListener implements ActionListener{

    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
        //get data from text fields and store as integers in milliseconds. 

        //create a robot and random number between min and max

        while(run == true){

            robot.mousePress(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK);
            robot.mouseRelease(InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK);
            robot.delay(num.nextInt(max-min+1)+min);

            }
        }
    }
}

I’ve removed some code because it wasn’t relevant to the issue.
The problem is I have another button to set the variable run to false but once the first button is clicked, I can’t click the second button or the exit button at the top for that matter.

I’m sure my mistake is a very basic one but I can’t see it.
Thank you for any replies that help me better understand the subject.

Edit: Changed the while loop from “while (run = true)” to “while (run == true)”.

Answer 1

 while(run == true){

“=” sets run to true
“==” compares the value of run to true

Also you can just use

 while(run){