How do you temporarily pause a loop until a button is pressed in java -

how can make loop temporarily pause while wait button pressed? iv been looking around while, , cant seem find it, thought try here.

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i creating blackjack game, added gui buttons, hitme , stand once game gets point in loop need player input either, hitme or stand added buttons execute that, cant figure out how pause loop check , see if button pressed, , 1 continue.

what have tried this:

 (othercode)   g.printplayercards(p1);             g.totalworth(p1);             thing.messagetop("your total card amount is: " + p1.gettotalworth());             thing.messagetop("hit me? or stay?");             thing.waitonbutton();   public void waitonbutton(){         wantingtobeclick = 1;         do{             while(!(hitme == 0)){                 hitme = 0;                 wantingtobeclick =0;             }         }while(wantingtobeclick == 1);     }  public void actionperformed(actionevent e) {         if(wantingtobeclick == 1){             if (e.getsource() == hitme){                 hitme = 1;                 system.out.println("iclickedhitme");                 g.hitme(player1);                 waitonbutton();             }             if(e.getsource() == stand){                 hitme = 1;                 g.changestandhit();             }         }     } 

it stays in infinite loop , doesn't continue on loop in main.

the way can think 'pause' loop execute more code during loop, preferably on different thread. i.e.

while (true) {     if (_buttonispressed) {         thread.sleep(5000); // loop paused     } } 

but, more point, feels might going things wrong way.

instead of running loop check see if has happened, you're better off firing action once button pressed. called event-driven programming.