Wait one second in running program

dataGridView1.Rows[x1].Cells[y1].Style.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);

İ want to wait one second before printing my grid cells with this code, but it isn't working. What can i do?

Is it pausing, but you don't see your red color appear in the cell? Try this:

dataGridView1.Rows[x1].Cells[y1].Style.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;
dataGridView1.Refresh();
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);

Mark Rowe

Personally I think Thread.Sleep is a poor implementation. It locks the UI etc. I personally like timer implementations since it waits then fires.

Usage: DelayFactory.DelayAction(500, new Action(() => { this.RunAction(); }));

//Note Forms.Timer and Timer() have similar implementations. 

public static void DelayAction(int millisecond, Action action)
{
    var timer = new DispatcherTimer();
    timer.Tick += delegate

    {
        action.Invoke();
        timer.Stop();
    };

    timer.Interval = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(millisecond);
    timer.Start();
}

Wait function using timers, no UI locks.

public void wait(int milliseconds)
    {
        System.Windows.Forms.Timer timer1 = new System.Windows.Forms.Timer();
        if (milliseconds == 0 || milliseconds < 0) return;
        //Console.WriteLine("start wait timer");
        timer1.Interval = milliseconds;
        timer1.Enabled = true;
        timer1.Start();
        timer1.Tick += (s, e) =>
        {
            timer1.Enabled = false;
            timer1.Stop();
            //Console.WriteLine("stop wait timer");
        };
        while (timer1.Enabled)
        {
            Application.DoEvents();
        }
    }

Usage: just placing this inside your code that needs to wait:

wait(1000); //wait one second

Busy waiting won't be a severe drawback if it is short. In my case there was the need to give visual feedback to the user by flashing a control (it is a chart control that can be copied to clipboard, which changes its background for some milliseconds). It works fine this way:

using System.Threading;
...
Clipboard.SetImage(bm);   // some code
distribution_chart.BackColor = Color.Gray;
Application.DoEvents();   // ensure repaint, may be not needed
Thread.Sleep(50);
distribution_chart.BackColor = Color.OldLace;
....

use dataGridView1.Refresh(); :)

Try this function

public void Wait(int time) 
{           
    Thread thread = new Thread(delegate()
    {   
        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(time);
    });
    thread.Start();
    while (thread.IsAlive)
    Application.DoEvents();
}

Call function

Wait(1000); // Wait for 1000ms = 1s

I feel like all that was wrong here was the order, Selçuklu wanted the app to wait for a second before filling in the grid, so the Sleep command should have come before the fill command.

    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);
    dataGridView1.Rows[x1].Cells[y1].Style.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.Red;

Bartek Winslawski

Maybe try this code:

void wait (double x) {
    DateTime t = DateTime.Now;
    DateTime tf = DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(x);

    while (t < tf) {
        t = DateTime.Now;
    }
}

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10458118/wait-one-second-in-running-program

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