How to add a time delay to an action

Question

So I am writing a small slot machine application for my C# class, I have the slot machine coded fairly well, but I was wondering how I would go about adding a time delay to actions. So that as my loop ran through I could pause at the end of each iteration, thereby creating a visual update of each slot on my machine for the user to watch

Im not asking for code or a loop on how to achieve this, I can figure that out myself. I just need the method for setting time delays and the parameters of said method.

Solution 1

You can do it in two ways, for projects under .Net 4.0. Use Thread.Sleep method.

Thread.Sleep(int value or TimeSpan here)

for projects over or exactly .Net 4.0, you may use Task.Delay

Task.Delay(10).Wait();

await Task.Delay(10); // for .Net 4.5

Solution 2

using System.Threading; Thread.Sleep(x); // put your time in millis here

Doing the above will pause execution of your thread for however long you specify.

Comments

[Dlorwisdom]

Thank you!!! So much!!! We haven't covered this in our book but I knew there was a way!

[DevEstacion]

You're welcome @Dlorwisdom

[Alexei Levenkov]

@Dlorwisdom Thread.Sleep is an interesting suggestion for something that clearly deal with UI... Make sure to ignore that part of answer (if you can't go async route - search for Timer).