Pausing Program Execution - 5 Minutes

[Fred Nelson]

Hi:

I'm trying to write a routine that will permit my VB.NET program to
pause execution for five minutes and try a task again if there is a
failure. After a set number of tries it should return a failure
notification.

I know how to do everything except make it hibernate for five minutes -
if anyone knows how to do this I would GREATLY apprecaite it!

=============== =============== ==============
Logially:

dim error_counter as integer = 0

while error_counter < 10

if callmainfunctio n()
' it worked - return
return .t.
endif

' add one to the error counter:
error_counter += 1

** wait five minutes

"system.sle ep(5 minutes)"

end while

return .f.
=============== ===========

Thanks very much!

Fred

[Fred Nelson]

Re: Pausing Program Execution - 5 Minutes

Hi Again:

I found that:

system.threadin g.thread.sleep( miliseconds)

works just fine!


Fred Nelson wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi:
>
> I'm trying to write a routine that will permit my VB.NET program to
> pause execution for five minutes and try a task again if there is a
> failure. After a set number of tries it should return a failure
> notification.
>
> I know how to do everything except make it hibernate for five minutes -
> if anyone knows how to do this I would GREATLY apprecaite it!
>
> =============== =============== ==============
> Logially:
>
> dim error_counter as integer = 0
>
> while error_counter < 10
>
> if callmainfunctio n()
> ' it worked - return
> return .t.
> endif
>
> ' add one to the error counter:
> error_counter += 1
>
> ** wait five minutes
>
> "system.sle ep(5 minutes)"
>
> end while
>
> return .f.
> =============== ===========
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> Fred[/color]

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: Pausing Program Execution - 5 Minutes

* Fred Nelson <fred@smartybir d.com> scripsit:[color=blue]
> I found that:
>
> system.threadin g.thread.sleep( miliseconds)[/color]

Notice that this will block your app's user interface when calling this
method from within your main thread.

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

[Fred Nelson]

Re: Pausing Program Execution - 5 Minutes

Herfried:

I have noticed that and in this case its OK. I force a status box that
I'm using to perform a .UPDATE() so I can see what's going on.

Thanks for your help!

Fred

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:[color=blue]
> * Fred Nelson <fred@smartybir d.com> scripsit:
>[color=green]
>>I found that:
>>
>>system.thread ing.thread.slee p(miliseconds)[/color]
>
>
> Notice that this will block your app's user interface when calling this
> method from within your main thread.
>[/color]

[Cor Ligthert]

Re: Pausing Program Execution - 5 Minutes

Fred,

And when not, you can set it in a simple loop doing it 300 times a second
and place in that loop

application.doe vents

Just a simple addition.

Cor
[color=blue]
> Herfried:
>
> I have noticed that and in this case its OK. I force a status box that
> I'm using to perform a .UPDATE() so I can see what's going on.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Fred
>
> Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:[color=green]
> > * Fred Nelson <fred@smartybir d.com> scripsit:
> >[color=darkred]
> >>I found that:
> >>
> >>system.thread ing.thread.slee p(miliseconds)[/color]
> >
> >
> > Notice that this will block your app's user interface when calling this
> > method from within your main thread.
> >[/color][/color]