Thread: How to perform an action only if a certain amount of time has passed

Here is what I want to achieve.

A class gets a rapidly changing integer from another class. As it changes so fast, I wanted to perform an action only when this number is stabilized. Like if the method receives the same integer value during 3 seconds, then perform an action, otherwise ignore it as it changes too fast. Can someone tell me how to do it? best way

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Did you look at using a Timer?

Originally Posted by Norm

Did you look at using a Timer?

What I want is,

int x=3;

if (x==3 'during past 3 seconds')
{
//perform action
}
this should not disturb other actions of the program for this 3 secs.

But Timer lets us only perform a certain action in intervals or count time passed to execute an action.



Something like this is not what I want exactly. This is all I managed get with the timer

public class TestClass {
    public long myLong = 3000;
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
       MyClass test = new MyClass();
 
        Timer timer = new Timer();
        timer.schedule(new TimerTask() {
 
            @Override
            public void run() {
                test.doStuff();
            }
        }, 0, test.myLong);
    }
 
    public void doStuff(){
 
    }
}

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