sleep?

13 Feb 2006 2:51 PM

HockeyFan

I'm new to VB.Net. Wondering how you do a sleep for x milliseconds and then
continue executing on the next line? This was done in VB6 and wondering how
it's done in VB.Net.

13 Feb 2006 3:00 PM

guy

look at:-
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.Sleep( )

hth

--guy--

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"HockeyFan" wrote:

> I'm new to VB.Net. Wondering how you do a sleep for x milliseconds and then
> continue executing on the next line? This was done in VB6 and wondering how
> it's done in VB.Net.

13 Feb 2006 7:33 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"guy" <g**@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
> System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.Sleep( )

Better simply call 'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep', which will block
execution of the thread calling the method.

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13 Feb 2006 3:01 PM

zacks

System.Threading

Imports System.Threading

public sub mySub

'do something before waiting
Thread.Sleep(2000) ' sleeps for 2000 milliseconds
'do something after waiting

end sub

Can get you in trouble if you have multiple threads unless you are
careful.

13 Feb 2006 9:22 PM

CMM

I don't remember this being available in VB6?!
I know you could do it using the Win32 Sleep API... but it wasn't part of
VB6.

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-C. Moya
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> I'm new to VB.Net. Wondering how you do a sleep for x milliseconds and
> then
> continue executing on the next line? This was done in VB6 and wondering
> how
> it's done in VB.Net.

15 Feb 2006 12:17 PM

m.posseth

Imports System

Public Module modmain

Sub Main()

Console.WriteLine("I wait five seconds")

System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)

Console.WriteLine("five seconds have passed")

End Sub

End Module

regards

Michel Posseth [MCP]

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"CMM" <cmm@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>I don't remember this being available in VB6?!
> I know you could do it using the Win32 Sleep API... but it wasn't part of
> VB6.
>
> --
> -C. Moya
> www.cmoya.com
> "HockeyFan" <Hockey***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:DDCA6E0A-0B81-4A8C-8D30-251002520372@microsoft.com...
>> I'm new to VB.Net. Wondering how you do a sleep for x milliseconds and
>> then
>> continue executing on the next line? This was done in VB6 and wondering
>> how
>> it's done in VB.Net.
>
>

15 Feb 2006 12:41 PM

CMM

VB6?

The .NET answer had already been posted. I was asking about the OT
mentioning VB6.

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-C. Moya
www.cmoya.com

15 Feb 2006 7:25 PM

m.posseth

well in my newsgroup reader the .Net answer wasn`t showed i see now that
this was on a seperate thread

about the vb6 thingy

afaik this can only be done like this

Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)

Private Sub Command1_Click()

Me.Caption = "Your system will sleep 5 sec."

'Sleep for 5000 milliseconds

Sleep 5000

Me.Caption = ""

End Sub

Private Sub Form_Load()

Me.Caption = ""

Command1.Caption = "Sleep ..."

End Sub

regards

Michel Posseth [MCP]
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> VB6?
>
> The .NET answer had already been posted. I was asking about the OT
> mentioning VB6.
>
> --
> -C. Moya
> www.cmoya.com
>