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Josh Santos
Josh Santos

Reputation: 3

Loop only after a certain time has passed

I'm pretty new to programming, I've started with C# and I'm doing a project where there is a race, basically just need to randomize the position of cars in a list, but i wanted to make it so the console updates the progress of the cars, instead of just showing initial and final position, I tried to just randomize position, show in console, clear console in a for loop with a count of 5, the problem is that it goes too fast, is there any way to make the loop only loop after a certain time to make sure it is possible to see the order of the cars change in the console? Here's what I tried (corrida1 is a class that consists of a list of cars and the method posicaoAleatoria, which randomizes the list, corrida1.corrida is the list itself):

for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
            {
                corrida1.posicaoAleatoria();
                foreach (var carro in corrida1.corrida)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("{0} conduzindo o carro número {1} de cores {2}, {3} e {4}", carro.nomePiloto, carro.numero, carro.cores, carro.marca, carro.modelo);
                }
                Console.Clear();
            }

Upvotes: 0

Views: 73

Answers (3)

Masoud Sharifi
Masoud Sharifi

Reputation: 94

I changed the code as needed. I hope I understood correctly.

for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
        {
            Thread.Sleep (50);
            corrida1.posicaoAleatoria();
            foreach (var carro in corrida1.corrida)
            {
                Thread.Sleep (50);
                Console.WriteLine("{0} conduzindo o carro número {1} de cores {2}, {3} e {4}", carro.nomePiloto, carro.numero, carro.cores, carro.marca, carro.modelo);
            }
            Console.Clear();
            Console.ReadKey()
        }

You can change the value to 50 as needed

Upvotes: 0

Aditya Nair
Aditya Nair

Reputation: 572

Use Thread.Sleep(). The argument for it is in milliseconds. So if you want to pause the code for say, 1 minute, it will be as follows:

Thread.Sleep(1 * 60 * 1000);

where 1 represents the minute, 60 the seconds in a minute and 1000 number of milliseconds in a second.

Upvotes: 2

HardcoreGamer
HardcoreGamer

Reputation: 1193

You need Thread.Sleep or Console.Read.

Console.Read will stop the process until you enter something.

Upvotes: 1

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