Pausing an operation without freezing the entire client

[Ravekitty]

This is the code I have

checkUser = false;
loginMessage2 = "Error connecting to server.";
		try {
			Thread.sleep(5000);
		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		checkUser = true;

What I want to do is add a delay between boolean changes, without the whole client freezing up

Any help would be appreciated

[GregBrannon]

Use a helper thread to do what you've shown above while the client continues to run on another thread.