Re: Threads and Timing

From: Daniel Moth (dmoth74_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:22:50 -0000

You should chain your timer events - do not use the period (use -1 instead
for that parameter). I.e. when the timer expires, run your code and start
the one-shot timer again with X.

For your second requirement the easiest way is to have a separate timer
running for Y. When it expires stop your first timer.

The CF ng is best for CF questions:
microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.compactframework

Cheers
Daniel 

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"Samer Saghir" <SamerSaghir@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:AED18486-82F5-45D9-B048-983D3E62496C@microsoft.com...
> Hey,
>
> I'm trying to get a peice of code to run repeatedly every X seconds and 
> the
> whole thing shouldn't run for more than Y seconds.
>
> I tried using System.Threading.Timer and the period does the repeating for
> me but I have two problems:
>
> 1 - The period has nothing to do with whether the code has finished
> executing or not. So if the code requires 2 seconds to run and I specified 
> a
> 1 sec repeat period it would run every second and not a second after the 
> one
> before finished exceuting. (I've done some research and it seems that in
> regualr .NET this can be solved by joining threads anything similar or
> workaround for .NETCF??)
>
> 2 - I have to have a seperate thread running to moniter the overall time,
> can I avoid that?
>
> Thanks for the help
> Samer
>
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> Check out my blog at:
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