Swing Indeterminate JProgressBar moving too fast

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I have created a Swing JProgresBar and set indeterminate to "true". The progress bar works correctly but it cycles extremely fast and the it's annoying to look at for longer than 3 seconds. I want to slow it down and I thought there would be a method for this. If there is a method I haven't found it yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

sftpProgressBar.setIndeterminate(true);
sftpDialog.setVisible(true);

This is pretty much it. I used the Swing Design Window to construct the UI. Here is what I do to display and set it to indeterminate. sftpProgressBar.setIndeterminate(true); sftpDialog.setVisible(true); I apologize in advance for the code formatting. Not sure how to do that in the comments on here. — Conner, May 14 '12 at 17:46
*"code formatting. Not sure how to do that in the comments on here."* **Don't** put code in comments. Edit it back into the question. — Andrew Thompson, May 14 '12 at 17:52
Thanks Andrew. I've edited the question and added the sample code. — Conner, May 14 '12 at 18:16

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 14 '12 at 20:18

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You can control the animation speed of a JProgressBar. See the documentation:

The "ProgressBar.cycleTime" UI default lets look and feel implementers (as well as other developers)specify how many milliseconds each animation cycle takes. For example, a cycle time of 500 means that the indeterminate-mode progress bar animation repeats twice per second.

answered May 14 '12 at 20:18

Jasper Siepkes

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I tried using cycleTime but it did not come up as a method I could use. Maybe it's a different type of progress bar? – Conner May 15 '12 at 18:04
@Conner As far as I know there is only one progressbar in Swing and thats the JProgressBar. Maybe the values are being overridden by the selected Look and Feel (Nimbus, Metal, etc). – Jasper Siepkes May 17 '12 at 16:10

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 15 '12 at 18:01

Well, this is how I fixed the problem. In "main" there was some generated code that I commented out. The only thing that changed was the progress bar. It slowed down to a much slower and more visibly pleasing speed. This is the code I commented out.

try {
  for (javax.swing.UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo info :  javax.swing.UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels()) {
    if ("Nimbus".equals(info.getName())) {
        javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(info.getClassName());
        break;
  }
}

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 25 '13 at 13:32

 UIManager.put("ProgressBar.repaintInterval", new Integer(250));
 UIManager.put("ProgressBar.cycleTime", new Integer(6000));

ProgressBar.cycleTime: is the parameter using you can specify how many milliseconds each animation cycle takes . You can refer details in link

Swing Indeterminate JProgressBar moving too fast

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