Java, replacement for infinite loops?

Question

I am making a program that shows cellular growth through an array. I have gotten it so when I press the start button, the array updates every 10 seconds in a while(true){} l

Answer 1

Yep. Sounds like you're doing your drawing on the event dispatcher thread. Events (button presses) never have a chance to get called because you've never returned control from the last time it was called...