how to tell a program to wait or pause without using a timer control.
I did a bit of Lua scripting a few years back and the function was: Wait(5) or however long you needed the program to pause.
How would I pause an external program (exe), wait 10 minutes then unpause it using VB.NET
View 2 RepliesOut of curiosity, is there a way i can make a program stop or pause for a period of time (which i would choose) before continuing the code WITHOUT a timer.I think I've seen this done before, but I'm not positive.Also note that I'm talking about a forms application (not a console app if that would be any different.)
View 3 Repliesi need to pause/ wait the bellow VB program between the arorasTEMP.bat and the "Label2.Text = "Appending for AutoCAD version A..." as it happens the bat is appending before its temp copy is made
Dim RetBat1
RetBat1 = Shell("C:VTSarorasTEMP.bat", 1)
Label2.Text = "Appending for AutoCAD version A..."
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Alright, i have a little project im working on. It goes to a site, fills in info and clicks the submit button. The problem is, it clicks the submit button to fast. How can i make it pause between the filling of the form and the clicking of the submit button
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how do I get my app to wait untill an action is completed, I just want it to wait (sleep) untill an action is done, how ?
View 9 RepliesI want to be able to run a thread and then at a certain point pause it and wait for the user to enter some text into a text box and then when they press submit i want the program to run again from where it left off.
View 10 RepliesMy program is supposed to display a randomly generated sentence on the screen (something like a screensaver) Then 'wait' for a random period between 1 and 5 minutes before cycling through to generate another sentence. How do I do that?
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While navigating to a series of sites at one site the WebBrowser control's DocumentCompleted EVENT is tripped and no other recorded Browser events occur after that. When this happens the hour glass cursor indicates the browser is waiting. From this point it take 120 to 250 seconds of wall clock time before the browser resumes. I am looking for a way to force an abnormal termination without destroying the control. I have tried "Stop", "nav to about:blank" repeatedly without success. How can I force an abnormal termination when the Cntrl is in a wait state?
Consider the following: The last known Browser event to be tripped is a Document Complete event; nothing else occurs after this. When this transpires the Cntrl is waiting.
1:50:657: ============================= ENTER WebBrowser1_DocumentCompleted EVENT ========================================
31:50:657: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^THE NEW WEBBROWSER STATEMENT
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I've been trying for about a month or so but been busy recently so couldn't address it then. Here is the code.
Public Class Form1
Dim CurrentTime As DateTime
Private Sub ButtonStart_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ButtonStart.Click
ButtonStart.Enabled = False
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I know that even when the timer is disabled, it still keeps on accumulating so I need a way that when the timer is paused, the timer doesn't keep on accumulating and when the timer is resumed, the timer continues from where it was when it was paused.
Is it possible to pause and start the timer (so the current time doesn't get reset when the user clicks the button the second time)?
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I'm looking at how to pause a System.Timers.Timer and I cannot figure out the proper way to pause it without resetting the timer.
View 4 RepliesI could only find this answer for c++ and C# so how do I make a timer pause for the amount of time , for example 4 seconds.
View 2 RepliesI have a project where I need to call\execute a sub only after a certain timer has finished running and is disabled\stopped. The sub is called directly after the line of code that activates\starts the timer and the timer needs to run\tick for a couple of times before finally stopping itself with the help of a counter that's within the timer.tick event. The reason I need to wait for the timer is because it is working on some value that is needed by my sub.
Here's a portion of my rather long code that isn't working
'Assume this is my calling sub
Private sub CallingSub(Byval value As Integer)
Select Case value
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But this method and a few others are not working and are mostly resulting in a non-terminating loop. What I don't understand is why is this happening and what is the proper way to wait for timers to finish. The timers interval is 30 milliseconds.
i want to make a match game but i don't no how to make the timer to wait until two buttons are visible = false this is my exsample:
Button1.Visible = False
If PictureBox1.Tag = "major2nd1" And Button11.Visible = False Then
Timer1.Stop()
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I am trying to make a start and pause button (and hence continue) to start, pause, and continue my program. The start button works but the pause button does not. Can someone look at my code and see what the pause button needs to do to pause the program? I am using VB 2005. Here is my code.
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I have a timer in vb.net and it's interval is 1000ms ,. i have placed in it's timer_tick event a code that will print screen the screen and save it to a database.The problem is when i click outside of the form, or loosing the focus of the mouse to the form containing that timer/printscreen, the timer stops. As a result the printscreen also stops.here are it's properties:
generate member = true
interval = 1000
modifiers = friend
Hi. what is the difference of sleep function and pause function (using timer) between a loop.
View 12 RepliesVB6 create object of timer instead of timer control
View 5 RepliesEg. ""vb.net" timer event trigger on purpose". This application is meant to run at all times to download a web page every minute. To avoid freezing the UI, I read that the best solution is to move the code from a While/Sleep loop to a Timer that will be triggered every minute. The problem I have, is that the user must wait for a minute before the event is triggered:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Timer1.Interval = 60000
Timer1.Enabled = True
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Is it possible to force this event to occur instead of waiting for it?
My problem is that I have a textbox that is filled with a line of data from an attached barcode scanner. I want to make it so when something is scanned into this box, another function is triggered (it clears the textbox and commits the data to a CSV file, so the user can scan another barcode). I was using a .TextChanged function so that when the text was changed in this textbox, it would commit it then, however the problem with this approach is that if the serial number is 77G8DS, then it will commit 7,7,G,8,D and S individually, instead of an entire string.
View 1 Replies1) Why the pause button and also the pause command does not exist in VB 2010 Express?
2) I have some solutions under 2010. In 2 or 3, while debugging, I can change instructions without restarting the application. In others, I cannot change anything (Is like readonly), Looking in 'My Applications', Tab 'Debug', Option 'Configuration' I can choose several Options. In the applications I can debug, the default is 'Active (Debug)'; in the others is 'Active (Release)'. If I change the options, the word 'Active' remains attached to the original option.
For Each item In lbFiles.Items
Dim p As New ProcessStartInfo
p.FileName = "java"[code]....
How do I prevent the program from opening 3 windows at a time if there are 3 items in the listbox..how do i tell it to not to start the process when the current process isn't finished yet...like 1 window at a time...
In VB.net, is it possible to create a pause in a while loop, wait for user input (for example, hit the STOP button, if desired), and if no input within say... a second, continue on?[code]...
View 1 RepliesI would like for my program to pause for about 3-5 seconds and then close/exit after pausing. I've used the my.application.doevents() and threading.thead.sleep as well, which may work, but when I add close() after the pause it just closes.
View 8 RepliesThe problem that I'm encountering right now is that I can't seem to get my program to wait for a couple seconds for another application to load before it starts to check if it's open. Here's what I've got (feel free to tell me its a terrible way of writing!):
Private Sub Running_Shown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Shown
Main.Enabled = False
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So if I don't have the sleep function then oasicer hasn't loaded and it says it's finished straight away, but if I call a 5s sleep then it crashes, and not for just 5 sec. Is there a replacement for this line? Something that would just delay going to the while loop?
I am not sure how to make my program pause in the middle of execution, waiting for a certain period of time to pass BEFORE the next lines execute. I have already used System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(int) but this pauses the waits but still executes the subsequent code. If I were to:Private Sub Hello()System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(int)MessageBox.Show("Hello")End Sub* Time in milliseconds.This would NOT stop the execution of the MessageBox for int seconds, the program continues to run???How would I pause the code execution where I want, and for the time I want?
View 10 RepliesI'm tryng to figure out a way how I can stop my code from running while I wait for input from a device.Networked device that sends data to .net app.I now wish to prompt the user to answer a 'Continue' questoion and select either 'Yes' or 'No' on the device. This is transmitted to program over netstream.I want the code to pause though while waiting for an answer as different routines are run dependent on the answer.
View 5 RepliesIn a vb 2010 project, I have 2 win forms: Form1 and Form2.
In the Form1 class there is a server-based timer: when the "elapsed event" fires, then I update the text of a Label1 on the Form2. A very simple code:
Is there a command or couple of code lines that will pause the running program for one or two seconds?
I have a program that checks the system time every 250milliseconds and I need to skip checking it three times the first time it comes back with ":00" seconds from the system clock.
Or another option would be to reset the timer to 1000 and then back to 250...