Visual Basic console - Making text type itself out

Question

I'm totally cold on this so I have no idea how I would even start coding something like this except for the part that I think it might use some kind of a timer. Basicly I want the text to type itself out on the console so say that a basic Console.WriteLine ("Hello world") would take 5 seconds to write itself (so 2 letters per second). Is there a command that does something like this? Or do I have to make some (hopefully not) complex timer based Sub that will write the text out for me?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Use this code to get the effect:

Sub ConsoleType(stringToWrite As String, delay As Integer)
    For Each i As Char In stringToWrite
        Console.Write(i)
        Threading.Thread.Sleep(delay)
    Next
End Sub

Call the function ConsoleType and it will be 'typed'. Note that the delay is in milliseconds. Since you want the speed of 2 Letters/sec, you could use a value of 500.