How to asynchronously wait for x seconds and execute something then?

Question

I know there is Thread.Sleep and System.Windows.Forms.Timer and Monitor.Wait in C# and Windows Forms. I just can\'t seem to be able to figure out how to wait fo

Answer 1

your application hangs because you are invoking the 5 second sleep/wait on the main UI thread. put the sleep/wait/whatever action in a separate thread (actually System.Windows.Forms.Timer should do that for you) and when it completes invoke the action that turns some control green. remember to check InvokeRequired. here's a short sample (SetText can be called from another thread, if it is the call will instead be invoked on the main UI thread where the textbox is on):

private void SetText(string text)
{
// InvokeRequired required compares the thread ID of the
// calling thread to the thread ID of the creating thread.
// If these threads are different, it returns true.
if (this.textBox1.InvokeRequired)
{    
    SetTextCallback d = new SetTextCallback(SetText);
    this.Invoke(d, new object[] { text });
}
else
{
    this.textBox1.Text = text;
}
}

I took the sample from here (well worth a read!).