delay

I'm incredibly new to programming, and I've been learning well enough so far, I think, but I still can't get a grasp around the idea of making a delay the way I want. What I'm working on is a sort of test "game" thingy using a Windows forms application that involves a combat system. In it, I want to make an NPC that does an action every couple of seconds. The problem is, I also want to allow the player to interact between attacks. Thread.sleep really doesn't seem to work for me not only because I don't know how to multithread, but whenever I try to run it, say, like this: textBox1.Text += "\r

How can I delay actions between keypress in jQuery. For example; I have something like this if($(this).val().length > 1){ $.post("stuff.php", {nStr: "" + $(this).val() + ""}, function(data){ if(data.length > 0) { $('#suggestions').show(); $('#autoSuggestionsList').html(data); }else{ $('#suggestions').hide(); } }); } I want to prevent posting data if the user continously typing. So how can I give .5 seconds delay? You can use jQuery's data abilities to do this, something like this: $('#mySearch').keyup(function() { clearTimeout($.data(this, 'timer')); var wait = setTimeout(search, 500); $(this)

I need to add delay between the execution of two lines in a(same) function. Is there is any favorable options to do this? Note: I don't need two different functions to do this, and the delay must not affect other functions' execution. eg: line 1: [executing first operation]; line 2: Delay /* I need to introduce delay here */ line 3: [executing second operation]; Any help is appreciable. Thanks in advance... You can use gcd to do this without having to create another method double delayInSeconds = 2.0; dispatch_time_t popTime = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, (int64_t)(delayInSeconds * NSEC

Here is some jQuery for a search box that I expect is actually an antipattern, and am sure there is a much better solution for that I would love to be pointed towards: I will describe it in comments then just give the code, since the comments may be more clear and simple than the code: // set up a function call on keypress. // function call has a delay before the main event occurs. // When keypress function is called, wipe any previously queued events and make a new one at the standard delay rate. // Use a global to store the setTimeout pointer. // clearTimeout any pre-existing pointers. //

Hi Im using java but Im trying to make a delay that doesn't stop the program but stops that block of code kind of for example if I have it in a method that adds 1 to a variable I want it to add 1 then wait one second then add 1 again but delay() stops the whole program and thread.sleep doesnt work in a processing project. You should not use delay() or Thread.sleep() in Processing unless you're already using your own threads. Don't use it on the default Processing thread (so don't use it in any of the Processing functions). Instead, use the frameCount variable or the millis() function to get

I'm working on an JavaFX 8 app right now, where i have a tableView and some textFields above which make it possible to search/filter for certain columns in the tableView. I have added a listener to the textFields, to trigger the filtering automatically when a change is detected. I used the code below to do this. textField_filterAddress.textProperty().addListener((observable, oldValue, newValue) -> { doSomething(); // in this case, filter table data and refresh tableView afterwards }); My question now is: what's the easiest way to integrate some kind of time delay, before the filtering gets

Basically, I have this game where once guesses the correct answer it starts a new game with a new word. I want to display Correct! but after three seconds, change it to a empty string. How do I do that? My attempt: if (anagram.isCorrect(userInput.getText())) { anagram = new Anagram(); answer.setText("CORRECT!"); word.setText(anagram.getRandomScrambledWord()); this.repaint(); try { Thread.currentThread().sleep(3000); } catch (Exception e) { } answer.setText(""); } else { answer.setForeground(Color.pink); answer.setText("INCORRECT!"); } Edit: My solution: private void jButton1ActionPerformed