Are there any alternatives that would leave a responsive program that would accomplish a pause of a couple of seconds besides a timer of any kind I want to do something like Thread.Sleep(5000); but that causes an unresponsive program. I want to avoid timers as well. Are there any alternatives at all
Thread Sleep Functionality without the Sleep
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It's either one or the other. If the thread does sleep then it cannot be responsive. Normally you use timers for that but since you don't want timers the only option left is to create another thread and sleep in that thread.
Not sure if this helps but without some more information it's the best you can get. Why do you want to "pause" and what "pause" means anyway
sureshsundar007