Javax Swing Timer Help

Question

I am having trouble running javax.swing.Timer after a mouse click. I want to start a timer to perform some animation after the user clicks on the button, but it does not work.

Here are the code snippets:

public class ShowMe extends JPanel{
  private javax.swing.Timer timer;

  public ShowMe(){
    timer = new javax.swing.Timer(20, new MoveListener());
  }    

  // getters and setters here

  private class MoveListener implements ActionListener {

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
     // some code here to perform the animation
    }
  }
}

This is the class that contains the button, so when the user clicks on the button, the timer starts to start the animation

public class Test{

 // button declarations go here and registering listeners also here

 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
  if(e.getSource() == this.btnConnect){
      ShowMe vis = new ShowMe();
      vis.getTimer().start();
  }
 }
}

I want to start the timer to start the animation, but it does not work.

Need help on how to start a timer after pressing a button.

Thank.

Answer 1

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    timer = new javax.swing.Timer(20, new MoveListener());
    timer.start();
  }  

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     // some code here to perform the animation
    }
  }

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