How do I pause the console for an x amount of seconds

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How do you pause the console for a certain amount of seconds.

Posted 6-Jan-14 8:57am

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-06T09:02:00

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Depending on what environment you are working in.
For Native, call Sleep[^] - for CLR applications you want Thread::Sleep[^]
But...be aware that it will do just that: pause your console for the time you specify. Nothing else will happen...

Posted 6-Jan-14 9:02am

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Ron Beyer 6-Jan-14 15:06pm

And if done for more than a few seconds Windows will think your application has stopped and gray out the window. Then after some more time it may ask if you want to end the application or keep waiting. I'm not sure how in native applications to keep the message pump going, but in managed applications you want to service the message pump. +5

OriginalGriff 6-Jan-14 15:34pm

Short bursts, with calls to DoEvents, but I've never tried in a console app, and it's a bad solution anyway!