Putting a time delay in VB.net

OmegaRed

I want to delay the call of a procedure by a few seconds (3 seconds or so)

“
Me.Show()


'calls print procedures above
CaptureScreen()
prtDocument.Print()
“

So after Me.Show () I want to put a few seconds delay in before it calls the CaptureScreen() procedure.

Any idea how I could do this? Is it even possible?

Thanks

Merrion

Thread.Sleep()

dazberry

As Merrion said:
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000);

The only catch is that that will completely freeze your application for the sleep duration. An alternative would be to use a timer (System.Timers.Timer). Example in C#.

Timer T = new System.Timers.Timer(3000);
T.AutoReset = false;           
T.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(T_Elapsed);
T.Enabled = true;

// Event Handler
void T_Elapsed(object sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
 if (InvokeRequired)
      Invoke(new ElapsedEventHandler(T_Elapsed),sender,e);
 else
      CaptureScreen();
}

You might not need the invoke but I put it in there for completeness.

HTH

D.