Inconsistant Thread Sleep Timer?
Apr 5, 2011
Ok so I have been playing with VB.net and brainstorming ways to accomplish launching a thread reliably every 60 seconds reguardless of how long the prior thread took to do it's work. Here is my question. Given the following code:
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My assumption for this output would be that the time between each line would have to be exactly 5000 milliseconds plus the time it takes to execute the rest of the loop which could vary given that there could be an unknown delay due to disk IO. My problem is that looking at lines 10 and 11 and subtracting gives me a difference of 4,958 milliseconds. So my question is what the heck is going on there? How is it possible to get a difference of less than 5000 milliseconds when I have told the thread to sleep for 5000 milliseconds before completing the process. What am I missing?
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May 25, 2010
Currently I'm using System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000) to let my app pause/sleep for some time. This works great but I can't open my app anymore when it's sleeping and it uses about 25% of my CPU. I guess there must be a better way to do this. I also tried using a timer but that didn't work out to well for me..
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Nov 27, 2009
is there anyway to sleep a thread for a "tick". i.e. the tick in StopWatch.ElapsedTick. right now the best i could achieve is this thread.sleep(1). i need it faster
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Mar 22, 2010
Im trying to do this
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But it will just skip to the last status (Label3.Text = "Status: Welcome")
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Dec 20, 2009
Is there is way to delay loops without using (Sleep or timer) in VB
Because on java you cant do something like this
For(i = 0; i< 100; i++) {
Event.Wait(3000)
Animate(i);
}
I dont want to use sleep because your control is dead while is at sleep And using timer waste memory and process timer plus more coding is needed!
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Jul 29, 2009
I wanna sleep a second thread of BackgroundWorker. I tried to use Me.Dispatcher.Thread.Sleep(500) in DoWork event, but it fails.
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Aug 22, 2011
Im having a problem with putting a thread to sleep...
othread.sleep(system.threading.timeout.indefinite)
The error is :"Access of shared member, constant member or enum member or nested type through an instance, qualifying expression will not be evaluated"
The code is:
Code:
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Threading
Public Class In_Process
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May 5, 2012
[code]I send the Thread via Thread.Sleep to sleep mode when nothing happens here. Does this affect the TCPListener in his work somehow and what happens to an incomming connection while the Thread is in sleep-mode?
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Apr 26, 2009
I am trying to learn how to use Thread.Sleep properly as the main problem I am facing when using it is the fact that the window/form on run time would not move until after the sleep time has elapsed. Did I miss something? Below is a short example of what I want to achieve.
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Oct 12, 2010
If I have an event that starts a timer with an interval of say, 30 minutes, and 15 minutes later, the computer the app is running on sleeps (Suspend to RAM) or Hibernates (Suspend to Disk), and is brought back online after ten minutes, will the timer raise its Tick event in 5 minutes (30 minutes REAL time from the start) or 15 minutes (30 minutes RUNTIME from the start)?
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Jun 23, 2011
In a WinForms environment, I want to wait a specified amount of time before hiding a user control, but I don't want to freeze the entire UI. I can't kick off to another thread because I have to service the UI components on the thread they were created on. What is the cleanest way to do this?
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May 13, 2012
I have this little application that is using a System.Threading.Thread.Sleep, application runs great but Windows thinks the application is not responding even though it is running.
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Apr 22, 2012
i have a web browser control, that refreshes pages on a loop after calling a few subs, i need to create a delay in the loop so that the page has a chance to refresh and redisplay before it loops again. i tried the code below, but it seemed to freeze the entire form, elements including, so the web browser didnt refresh before the loop, so how could i create a non form-freezing delay for a loop?
For count = 1 To 20
WebBrowser1.Navigate("URL")
simcheckcheck()
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Mar 13, 2010
i got inside
WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted sub
the code below
WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("form").InvokeMember("click")
Call ProcessNextLine()
when it clicks this button it should load another page(Like log in)
Call ProcessNextLine()
takes next line from txt file (It's url) + navigate
but I want it to wait let the page load before calling "Call ProcessNextLine()" I tried System.Threading.Thread.Sleep not working?
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Jun 10, 2009
I'm looking for a way to pause my application while in a loop without affecting the users ability to control the application, the sleep thread method makes it seem that the app is frozen.
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Apr 23, 2009
I have a windows application that need to process som quite time consuming jobs. In my first try i did all processing under
the form thread. The result was bad response and update of the form due to the heavy jobs.To get around the problem with bad response from the form i created a new class "processing" where i put all the data processing. Then i instanciated a background worker where i in the "doWork" sub created a new instance of "processing".The "processing" class creates a timer from system.timer, and the timer drives the processing.On the Timer event Elapsed the timer starts a new thread from the thread pool.
My problem is now when i want to asynchronously close the background worker (with the corresponding function call what ever it is called ...) there is still a timer thread out there that causes exceptions for me.
1. How can i close my background worker and at the same time have the timer to be stopped?
2. Is there a way to synchronize the timer event so that the timer executes from the background worker thread?
3. Is there a better approach for me to adapt?
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Nov 10, 2011
I have a control thread that starts up a secondary thread and when the secondary thread finishes, the control thread restarts the secondary thread. On this secondary thread, I use a stopwatch to record a thread.sleep event. Is there any reason, under any circumstance, why the stopwatch elapsed millisecond value (499) would be 1ms less than the sleep time (500 ms)This doesn't happen all the time or even a lot, I'm just curious if there is any physical reason for this to happen.
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Apr 14, 2012
I want to have My.Settings.Delay in seconds not milliseconds adding the 000 for the user. I tried My.Settings.Delay + 0 + 0 + 0. but can't sort how to do this.
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Dim var As Integer
Dim startVal As Integer
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Aug 22, 2009
I cant get System.Threading.Thread.Sleep to work..[code]
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Jul 20, 2010
The coding that I have a problem with might make people think that I am creating some malware or something stupid. So the project I am doing is associated with iTunes. iTunes allows people to have one library. There is another way, but it is very confusing to some people, and very unreliable. So my project is that I will allow people to have multiple iTunes libraries on one computer. So the problem is this. In order to have an option to choose your library, I gotta make sure that iTunes is not running. So this is the script:
Code:
Private Sub CheckAndCloseiTunes()
retry:
'Custom class that includes the function to safely close iTunes
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So when I use the Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000) code, the form becomes unresponsive.
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Jul 20, 2010
The coding that I have a problem with might make people think that I am creating some malware. So the project I am doing is associated with iTunes. iTunes allows people to have one library. There is another way, but it is very confusing to some people, and very unreliable. So my project is that I will allow people to have multiple iTunes libraries on one computer. So the problem is this. In order to have an option to choose your library, I gotta make sure that iTunes is not running.
So this is the script:
Private Sub CheckAndCloseiTunes()
retry:
'Custom class that includes the function to safely close iTunes
Dim Processes As Process() = Process.GetProcessesByName("iTunes")
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So when I use the Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000) code, the form becomes unresponsive.
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Aug 13, 2010
I have a routine which is controlled by a timer. It works perfectly. The problem is that now, I need to run this routine several times, so I need to start differents threads so that my program doesn't get hung up. I've been trying to start my timer inside a thread, but it doesn't work!
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Jun 25, 2012
I am using a .Net JavaScript implementation called Jurassic to run user-controlled scripts within my .Net 4 WPF application coded in VB.Net - C# answers are fine. The script engine runs on its own thread and provides an API for the script to interact with my application. This all works really nicely until a user executes a script that causes an infinite loop and takes out a core of the processor.
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The reason I care about keeping the thread alive is because the user who wrote the script and the user who is running it may not be the same, and I want to keep the experience as smooth as possible the the user running the thread. There also might be legitimate situations in which a single JavaScript function would run for a long time and I do not want to kill that, I just want to stop being allowed to hog the resources.
Solutions that involve stopping the thread from slowing down the system but that still show high CPU usage are not preferable because I do not want the user to wrongly feel that the application is resource intensive.
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Aug 20, 2009
Hi. what is the difference of sleep function and pause function (using timer) between a loop.
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Jul 19, 2011
I've been trying to use "System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(15)" as the delay code but if freeze the form. I used this "Location.Refresh()" where location is the name of the form, but it didn't give me what I need. This code is going to work on a ProgressBar while typing and the value of the progress bar change while typing. The progress bar jumps to the new value and I want it to move. So I thought about puting it in a "For ... Loop" but the whole form freezes.
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Dec 31, 2009
I have 5 Picture Boxes, each picture box has an image but all 5 of them has a visibility of false. I have a button, when clicked will show 5 of the images. But showing the 5 images with a delay. So it's going to be
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May 11, 2010
I used Timer in VB. then, I want to convert a program with VB.net. So, I used Thread instead of Timer. Then, I am curious what difference they are?
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Jun 2, 2012
I just finished up my space invaders movement and with all the other timers running it really bogs it down. So I think the best solution would be to make the timers run on separate threads. I know roughly how to do this from a old example I read a long time ago. So I just need a simple sample code to refresh my memory please. Maybe something with message boxes or something to demonstrate the process.
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Aug 19, 2009
i have a timer and i want its calculation will be done on another thread, since the timer tick event start whenever its enable property is set to true i don't see how to force it to work in another thread.
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Dec 6, 2011
Right now I have a windows service which only task is to gather data from a database with a specific DSN and then send out an email if the data is valid. The service contains a timer which ticks every 5 minuts and performs the tasks above.Now I need to re-write the windows service to be able to run on more than 1 DSN.I was thinking of making several threads inside the windows service and then again have a seperat timer inside each thread.Is this a good idea and how can this be done? I want to avoid having a windows service for each DSN.[code]
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