That's because you're blocking in the UI thread with that sleep. If you want to do something like that you'll have to do a sleep in a background thread and then posting something back into the UI thread. Maybe timers can help you better (System.Timers.Timer or System.Threading.Timer).
On 27 November 2012 01:59, Canning <si...@wizbiz.net.nz> wrote: > I am using MonoDevelop for Android and have a question. > > Currently, I am displaying a toast message and then wish to display a > messagebox x amount of seconds later. I have tried this code: > > System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000) > > However, the messagebox is displayed straight after the toast statement > with > no wait. > > Can I please have some help to let the toast be displayed and then the > application wait x amount of seconds and then display the messagebox? > > Thanks > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://mono-for-android.1047100.n5.nabble.com/Wait-x-seconds-tp5712503.html > Sent from the Mono for Android mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Monodroid mailing list > Monodroid@lists.ximian.com > > UNSUBSCRIBE INFORMATION: > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monodroid > -- Gonçalo Oliveira
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