Timer event doesn't get fired

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eljainc

Hello,

I'm having a problem with a simple application that I've written. I
have a form that loads another form. The second form has a timer
control on it. The timer will not fire for some reason. I have it
enabled and also used the start method. What might the problem be?

I've tried System.Windows.Forms.Timers and System.Timers but no luck.

Any help appreciated

Mike
 
I'm having a problem with a simple application that I've written. I
have a form that loads another form. The second form has a timer
control on it. The timer will not fire for some reason. I have it
enabled and also used the start method. What might the problem be?

I've tried System.Windows.Forms.Timers and System.Timers but no luck.
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It's hard to say what's wrong with no code. Could you post a short but
complete program which demonstrates the problem?

See http://pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html for what I mean by
that.

Jon
 
Is this a windows application? Starts like:

Application.Run(new Form1());

or is this a Console application, if its a console application I don't
think the System.Windows.Forms.Timers will work, I think you will need
the:

System.Timers.Timer
 
Err... actually never mind.

but I think you may have problems if you run a timer that inherits
from Component on a console application or Windows server.... not
sure... time to do some research!
 
It seems that when I use the command

Thread.Sleep(xx)

in my code in the units that use the timers, this is when the problems
occur. I will need an alternate
to the Thread.Sleep() method. Is there anything else out there that
is similar?

Mike
 
eljainc said:
It seems that when I use the command

Thread.Sleep(xx)

in my code in the units that use the timers, this is when the problems
occur. I will need an alternate
to the Thread.Sleep() method. Is there anything else out there that
is similar?
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I don't think you fully know how to use a spawned child thread that runs on
the Thread.Sleep method. I have never ever had a problem with the technology
with the execution of logic on a child thread on a timed basis.

Maybe, you should just drag a Timer control out of the Toolbox used for a
Windows Desktop form solution, place it on the form and use that Timer
control.
 
I don't think you fully know how to use a spawned child thread that runs on
the Thread.Sleep method. I have never ever had a problem with the technology
with the execution of logic on a child thread on a timed basis.

Maybe, you should just drag a Timer control out of the Toolbox used for a
Windows Desktop form solution, place it on the form and use that Timer
control.
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That's what I did. I used a designTime Timer control from the
toolbox.
 
I don't think you fully know how to use a spawned child thread that runs on
the Thread.Sleep method. I have never ever had a problem with the technology
with the execution of logic on a child thread on a timed basis.

Maybe, you should just drag a Timer control out of the Toolbox used for a
Windows Desktop form solution, place it on the form and use that Timer
control.
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The problem that occurs I found is when I mix the timer component with
the
System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch control. I would like to have multiple
timers
activated, but some timers I would like to use the .Elapsed property
of Stopwatch
so that I know how much time has passed instead of having an event
fire every xx
seconds or xx milliseconds.

Is there a Stopwatch replacement that will not cause conflicts with
the timer component?

Thanks
Mike
 
eljainc said:
The problem that occurs I found is when I mix the timer component with
the
System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch control. I would like to have multiple
timers
activated, but some timers I would like to use the .Elapsed property
of Stopwatch
so that I know how much time has passed instead of having an event
fire every xx
seconds or xx milliseconds.

Is there a Stopwatch replacement that will not cause conflicts with
the timer component?
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I don't know. I have never used the Stopwatch. Maybe, you should just use a
Timer control in the Toolbox for form controls using the Tick event of the
Timer with the Stopwatch. Maybe, that will work for you.
 
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