Stupid timertask question, i'm embarrassed even asking

Q_Ball

I keep getting "<identifier> expected" with this code at the timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(blah blah blah) method. What am i missing, i cant for the life of me see it. probably been looking at the code for too long

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

public class TimerThread {

	long auctionLength = 180000;
	long auctionDelay = 10000;

	Timer timer = new Timer();

	TimerTask task = new TimerTask()
	{

		public void run()
		{
			System.out.println("blah");
		} //end run

	};//end timertask

	timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(task, auctionDelay, auctionLength);

}//end class

its doing my nut in

Magic Monkey

Oops, erroneous advice removed. In any event, this may be of help.

BrokenArrows

Q_Ball wrote:

I keep getting "<identifier> expected" with this code at the timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(blah blah blah) method. What am i missing, i cant for the life of me see it. probably been looking at the code for too long

	TimerTask task = new TimerTask()
	{

		public void run()
		{
			System.out.println("blah");
		} //end run

	};  <=== Error Here No need for ;

its doing my nut in

hope that solves your problem

madramor

BrokenArrows wrote:

hope that solves your problem

no, thats the correct way to do it.

the problem is you are trying to execute code in a class that
is not a declaration

public class TimerThread {
    
    long auctionLength = 180000;
    long auctionDelay = 10000;
    Timer timer = new Timer();
    TimerTask task = new TimerTask(){
        public void run(){
            System.out.println("blah");
        }
    };
    // above all ok, below must be called in a method
    timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(task, auctionDelay, auctionLength);
    // also TimerThread has no constructor

BrokenArrows

oh ya sorry my bad didnt look at it right. Just had a quick look and saw it as a reg function.

Karoma

Disclaimer/Excuses: My head is ****ed. I haven't used Java in a while. I don't have the SDK installed, so I cannot test. Penguin.
However..

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

public class TimerThread
{ //hmmm..mebbe we should extends TimerTask ...*shrug* you try it and we'll see:)

        protected void startTask()
        {
             
             long auctionLength = 180000;
             long auctionDelay = 10000;

             TimerTask task = new TimerTask()
             {
        
                  public void run()
                  {
                      try
                      {
                          System.out.println("blah");
                      }
                      catch(Exception e){}                         
                  } //end run
        
             };//end timertask
             
              Timer timer = new Timer();
              timer.scheduleAtFixedRate(task, auctionDelay, auctionLength);
        }
}