# Initial delay when previewing and changing properties

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/initial-delay-when-previewing-and-changing-properties/1777387>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [March 10, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/initial-delay-when-previewing-and-changing-properties/1777387 "2022-03-10T16:51:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/initial-delay-when-previewing-and-changing-properties/1777387/1 "2022-03-10T16:51:30Z")

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[This topic](https://community.thunkable.com/t/bug-report-please-select-an-animation-file-displays-while-lottie-component-is-loading-a-file/1776811) got me thinking about a larger perspective on changes made when an app starts.

I’ve wondered for a long time why Thunkable doesn’t process property changes _first_ and then render/display the screen components. With the tool I used to use for developing apps before I found Thunkable, these types of changes would occur before the screen elements were displayed.

But with Thunkable, if I set a label’s text property to “Label” in the properties window and then have a set of blocks that says “When screen opens” → "set label’s text to “Something else”, when I preview it, I’ll first see “Label” for a second and then see “Something else.”

It seems that the default functionality should be to display “Something else” and not show “Label” at all. Because I can artificially delay that change with a Wait block but there’s not a way to artificially remove the delay that’s built in now.

It makes for extra work and less friendly design because I generally have to set all labels’ text to “” which then makes them more or less invisible on my screen layout.

**Edit:** Of course when I test this in a new Drag & Drop project… it doesn’t have any delay. 🤷‍♂️ Snap to Place seems equally fast. Did something change recently? I’ve been using workarounds for a looong time and I’d love to no longer have to.

Sample project: [Thunkable](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/86fc7d147ac8d98be05a9aa780b5a7a7)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2022, 4:51pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/initial-delay-when-previewing-and-changing-properties/1777387/2 "2022-06-08T16:51:47Z")

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