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Asked: 2026-06-01T21:21:38+00:00

I am trying to make a label that changes every second for an event.

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I am trying to make a label that changes every second for an event. What I currently have makes the thread sleep all the way through from “Rock” to “Shoot” and skips the “Paper” and “Scissors”. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I should do to properly display the label so that they are all displayed in equal time increments? Any help would be much appreciated.

lblCountdown.Text = "Rock"
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000)
lblCountdown.Text = "Paper"
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000)
lblCountdown.Text = "Scissors"
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000)
lblCountdown.Text = "Shoot!"
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  1. Editorial Team

    If you’re calling it from the UI thread, the rendering will lock up until the code is finished, so you won’t see Paper or Scissors. One solution (not the best solution, but a solution) is to call Me.Refresh() or Application.DoEvents() before each Sleep. This will tell the UI to redraw itself.

    A better solution would be to use some kind of timer that ticks at a 1 second interval, which would operate in another thread, freeing up your UI thread for more important things.

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