Timeout not timer?

[ironfistchamp]

I want to have a peice of code so that when a button is pressed it will wait a defined period of time before executing the rest of the code.

I don't want an actual timer just something that waits, oh I dont know, 5 seconds and then executes the code.

Any ideas folks?

Thanks

Ironfistchamp

 

[kulrom]

Thread.Sleep(5000)

HTH
Regards

 

[ironfistchamp]

Thanks very much I shall try that later.

Ironfistchamp

 

[taz-uk]

Thread.Sleep(5000)

HTH
Regards

I found this code on a search of the fourm, this is some that i need to be able to do in my little program, but when i add in your thread.sleep(5000) is says its not delclaried.

What do i need to delclaried as?

The code that i'm using is, where do i add in the line of code thread.sleep(5000). what i need it to do is, if it hasn't found the folder with 5 sec more on to the next if statement.

are you able to help me please..

If MK.FolderExists("\\manage-stn1\C$\winnt") Then
CheckBox1.CheckState = CheckState.Checked
End If
If MK.FolderExists("\\manage-stn2\C$\winnt") Then
CheckBox2.CheckState = CheckState.Checked
End If
If MK.FolderExists("\\manage-stn3\C$\winnt") Then
CheckBox2.CheckState = CheckState.Checked
End If
If MK.FolderExists("\\manage-stn4\C$\winnt") Then
CheckBox2.CheckState = CheckState.Checked
End If

Many THanks

Liam

 

[Thebest]

taz-uk,

You must Import System.Threading.Thread before you can use the Sleep(5000) command.

But I think that in your case it might be better to use a Timer because sleep(5000) really "stops" the program for 5 seconds.
So when your application is "sleeping", you can't search the specified folder.

 

[taz-uk]

how would i go about doing this as im still very new to programming.

 

[vis781]

just out of interest why do you want your program to wait 5 secs before executing the next statement.

 

[jmcilhinney]

Don't bother importing the namespace if you're just using it once. Simply qualify the class name instead:

Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)

You don't need to include the System part as every project already has the System namespace imported by default.

 

[ironfistchamp]

Funnily enough I can't remeber why I wanted to make it wait....but I do know there is a perfectly valid reason.

 

[Merchand]

IronFistChamp... I use a Sleep() all the time in VB6. You can use the .net built in Sleep() method like stated above. I used it in VS2003 today.

I added a reference to the system.threading.thread namespace and then added an Imports statement like state before. Not "Import".

I'm interested if you use the full qualified name like...

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)

If you still have to have the reference or not. [???]

Normally I would use a loop to do something (maybe processing) and sleep for a few minutes and loop back up and do it again.

Also, you might consider using the FileSystemWatcher class to monitor folders for specific type of files and then process them. I have not used this but it has great potential!!!

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