How come I can't stop this thread from sleeping?

Hello!

I'm playing around with J2ME and tries to do a modal Alert that returns the value of the user input.
I do not think it's possible from just the class in the API.

How ever. In one thread I start and show a Alert like:

ConfirmAlert confirmAlert = new ConfirmAlert("Please confirm!", "Ok", "Cancel", "This will reset The database");
int i = confirmAlert.showAlert(this);
closeAlert()

The confirm alert just looks like:
public class ConfirmAlert extends MyAppAlert
{
    private Command cancel;
    private Command confirm;

    public ConfirmAlert(String t, String confirmText, String cancelText, String message )
    {
        super(t, message);
        cancel = new Command( cancelText, Command.CANCEL, 2 );
        confirm = new Command( confirmText, Command.OK, 1 );
        setString(message);
        addCommand(cancel);
        addCommand(confirm);
        setCommandListener(this);
        setTimeout(Alert.FOREVER);
    }
}

The Alert is shown and in the extended method I start sleep the current thread.
But even though I change the value of the state the thread does not stop sleeping.
The state has the same value.

Below is my code with the loop that I'm hope that I may stop by pushing a command and change the state.

I do not see where I go wrong. I also hope I have posted enough info for you guys.
Best regards
Fredrik

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.*;
import javax.microedition.midlet.*;


public class MyAppAlert extends Alert implements CommandListener
{
    int state = 0;

    public MyAppAlert(String t, String message)
    {
        super(t, message, null, AlertType.WARNING);
        setTimeout(Alert.FOREVER);
    }

    public int showAlert(InfoCanvas infoCanvas)
    {
        infoCanvas.showAlert(this);

        Thread thread = Thread.currentThread();

        try
        {
            while( getState() == 0 )
            {
                System.out.println("State " + state);
                thread.sleep( MyAppMIDlet.SLEEPTIME );
            }
        }
        catch( InterruptedException e )
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return state;
    }

    public void commandAction( Command c, Displayable d )
    {
        setState(c.getCommandType());
        System.out.println(getState() + " Command "+c.getCommandType());
    }

    public synchronized int getState()
    {
        return state;
    }

    public synchronized void setState(int s)
    {
        state = s;
    }
}