Pausing the sequence

[grandad]

Hi,

Is it possible to make vb.net 'pause' for a few seconds before carrying on through the code. For example,

on button click

label1.text = "Hello"
**Code here to pause for 2 seconds then...**
label1.text = "This is my first post"
**Code here to pause for 2 seconds then...**
label1.text = "I dont know what I'm doing"

etc etc

any help on this would be great. I am quite new to this as you can tell.

thanks a lot.

[Pirate]

Try this

label1.text = "Hello"
Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000) ' 2 seconds delay
label1.text = "This is my first post"
Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000) ' 2 seconds delay
label1.text = "I dont know what I'm doing"

[grandad]

hi, thanks for your help

i have tried this and it seems to just make everything wait for 2 seconds and then just posts the last label1.text

for example

label1.text = "Hello"
Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000) ' 2 seconds delay
label1.text = "This is my first post"
Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000) ' 2 seconds delay
label1.text = "I dont know what I'm doing"

just waits a few seconds and then posts "I dont know what im doing" - i never get to see either "Hello" or "This is my first post"

any ideas?!

[taxes]

Originally posted by grandad
hi, thanks for your help

i have tried this and it seems to just make everything wait for 2 seconds and then just posts the last label1.text

for example

label1.text = "Hello"
Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000) ' 2 seconds delay
label1.text = "This is my first post"
Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000) ' 2 seconds delay
label1.text = "I dont know what I'm doing"

just waits a few seconds and then posts "I dont know what im doing" - i never get to see either "Hello" or "This is my first post"

any ideas?!

The label needs updating each time. Try

Label1.Text = "Hello"
        Label1.Update()
        Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000) ' 2 seconds delay
        Label1.Text = "This is my first post"
        Label1.Update()
 
        Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000) ' 2 seconds delay
        label1.text = "I dont know what I'm doing"

[grandad]

Excelent, that works. Thanks very much.