Is there anyway I can make my static text appear with a delay? For example:
Hello
(Wait 1/5 of a second)
How are you?
etc...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Is there anyway I can make my static text appear with a delay? For example:
Hello
(Wait 1/5 of a second)
How are you?
etc...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jump to PostYes, use call Sleep() to make the program pause for the desired about of time then rewrite the text.
#include <iostream> #include <windows.h> int main() { cout << "Hello ..."; Sleep(2000); // wait for 2 seconds cout << "How are you?\n"; }
It's something similar with …
And I forgot to mention, I am doing all of this in a dialog.
Yes, use call Sleep() to make the program pause for the desired about of time then rewrite the text.
#include <iostream>
#include <windows.h>
int main()
{
cout << "Hello ...";
Sleep(2000); // wait for 2 seconds
cout << "How are you?\n";
}
It's something similar with Windows Forms or MFC dialog boxes except instead of using cout to write the text you have to change the text in a static text control -- just give the text control property a name and you can easily change the text just as you might in an edit control.
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