Creating a wait or pause in my program

sanderson · January 8th, 2009, 01:32 PM

I want to be able to create a pause in my program where I can tell it to just wait for a given period of time and then start again. Does anyone know how I can do this?

Shasur · January 8th, 2009, 08:45 PM

Can you try

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000)

it will pause for 1000 milliseconds

Cheers
Shasur

Patrick Cambria · February 7th, 2009, 05:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shasur

Can you try

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000)

it will pause for 1000 milliseconds

Cheers
Shasur

That is a great final answer but for educational purpose here is a method you can play with.

Code:

Sub Nap(NapDuration as DateTime)
    Dim t1 as DateTime = Now
    Dim t2 as DateTime
    While (t2 < t1 + NapDuration)
        t2 = Now()
    End While
End Sub

Patrick Cambria · February 7th, 2009, 05:37 AM

Note if you want your application to refresh a visible control with t2 during the loop you will have to use Application.DoEvents inside your loop.

This allows the Application to um DoEvents between loops. Otherwise the applcation wont be able to do basic form events until the loop finished.