How to pause Thread execution

Question

How to pause execution of some Thread. I have Thread t and I have two buttons, PAUSE and CONTINUE. On pause I need to pause thread execution and on continue to thread start

Answer 1

You can try this:

private boolean isPaused = false;


public synchronized void pause(){
    isPaused = true;
}

public synchronized void play(){
   isPaused = false;
   notyfyAll();
}

public synchronized void look(){
   while(isPaused)
      wait();
}

 public void run(){
     while(true){
        look();
        //your code
 }