# Display images alternately
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/display-images-alternately/13567
**Category:** Beginners
**Created:** [August 24, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/display-images-alternately/13567 "2019-08-24T10:27:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Moene](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Moene)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2019, 10:27am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/display-images-alternately/13567/1 "2019-08-24T10:27:28Z")
How can I display an image in draw() successively with a delay between them?
```auto
PImage img1;
PImage img2;
void setup () {
img1 = loadImage("step5.png");
img2 = loadImage("fail2.png");
size(801,583);
background(#B70F0F);
delay(2000);
}
void draw (){
background(img1);
delay(2000);
background(img2);
delay(2000);
}
```
When i run this it shows the background colour from setup() after 2 seconds, then it runs for 4 seconds and shows the secend image (img2). How can I just show an image and then another one? I need something similar for a project, where I want to show certain images when certain inputs come from a serial port. That works with console messages (println()), but if I let the program show images instead it runs to the end and only shows the last image.
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### Author:  [@Moene](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Moene)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2019, 10:29am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/display-images-alternately/13567/2 "2019-08-24T10:29:21Z")
If I use:
image(img1,0,0);
there is the same issue.
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### Author:  [@Moene](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Moene)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/display-images-alternately/13567/3 "2019-08-24T10:33:54Z")
When I use rectangles instead of images there is also the same issue, so it has to be something wrong with my understanding of processing.
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### Author:  [@kll](https://discourse.processing.org/u/kll)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2019, 11:11am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/display-images-alternately/13567/4 "2019-08-24T11:11:16Z")
basically best is NOT to use
```auto
delay();
```
at all.
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first for the understanding,
draw() should run 60 times per second
( show all what you want show at that moment / draw inside the whole draw() loop
and yes, does not matter if image / shape / primitive … )
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if you want show different things / at a different time /
need a stage / timer concept /
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a start timer code play with
[Making a for loop ( or timer )](https://discourse.processing.org/t/making-a-for-loop-or-timer/6483/2) this