Animation delay code

[Xephonic]

Hello All. I've decided to take a shot at deving games on the PSP. Ive been coding for god knows how many years now. Most of my C/C++ knowledge is in data structures/data abstraction sadly. My game work is in java. So bear with me while i struggle with some of the graphical/animation stuff. Anyways, i decided at first ill create something really simple to help familiarize myself with the psp environment. So i decided as an exercise in button recognition, I'd create the game Simon. You know, a random pattern of buttons appears and lengthens by one each time and you gotta follow up by inputting the stuff in the correct order. A memory game. I've almost got a prototype done, but im struggling in one part right now, because im unfamiliar how id do this in C.
I need something be to be able to display for a few seconds then disappear. In short, i dont know what i need to do to create an animation timer that halts other processes. If someone would be as kind as to point me in the right direction thatd be great

[Agoln]

If you are looking for just showing the beginning of a simon game e.g. showing the pattern needed to sucessfully 'complete' a level, then here is some very english pseudo code:

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function showPatter
    loop
        draw correct button
        call sleep of [x] seconds
        clear screen
   end loop
end function