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    Resolved [RESOLVED] Execute While loop when button pressed

    Dear all,

    I am trying to code with visual basic 2010.

    I have 2 button START and STOP . if start button pressed while loop should executed with printing "hello" first time and "welcome"in second time . This loop should executed evey 5s. If stop button pressed while loop should end print " stop button pressed on same rich textbox

    Code:
    Public Class Form1
    
        Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button_click.Click
           
                Timer1.Interval = 1000 '3 seconds
                Timer1.Enabled = True
            RichTextBox1.Text = "hello"
            RichTextBox1.Text = "\n wait\n"
    
    
        End Sub
    
    
        Private Sub Button_stop_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button_stop.Click
            Timer1.Enabled = False
            RichTextBox1.Text = "Button stop pressed"
        End Sub
    End Class

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    Re: Execute While loop when button pressed

    Code:
    Option Explicit On
    
    
    
    Public Class Form1
        Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal milliseconds As Long)
        Dim stopclick As Boolean = False
        Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button_click.Click
    
    
            While True
                Application.DoEvents()
                sleep_program()
                RichTextBox1.Text = "hello"
                sleep_program()
                RichTextBox1.AppendText(RichTextBox1.Text)
                ' Perform the while statements
                If stopclick Then
                    stopclick = False
                    Exit While
                End If
            End While
    
            
    
    
        End Sub
    
    
        Private Sub Button_stop_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button_stop.Click
            stopclick = True
            RichTextBox1.Text = "Button stop pressed"
        End Sub
    
        Sub sleep_program()
            Threading.Thread.Sleep(3000)
        End Sub
    End Class
    Modified code as below. But i could not able to acheieve below thing

    I have two button start and stop.

    start button to start while loop and stop button to stop the while loop

    when button has pressed richtextbox has to print "hello" -> delay(1000)-> print "welcome" ->delay(1000)-> print "hello" ->delay(1000)-> print "welcome" -> and so on.If button stop pressed it should stop printing "welcome" and "hello"

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    Re: Execute While loop when button pressed

    Why not use a timer and just use the buttons to change the state of what the timer code is doing.
    Code:
    Public Class Form1
        Private StepState As Boolean
    
        Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button_click.Click
           
                Timer1.Interval = 1000 '1 second
                Timer1.Enabled = True
                StepState = False   'always start with hello
                RichTextBox1.Text = "Hello"
        End Sub
    
    
        Private Sub Button_stop_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button_stop.Click
            Timer1.Enabled = False
            RichTextBox1.Text = "Button stop pressed"
        End Sub
    
        Private Sub Timer1_Tick(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
            If Timer1.Enabled = True    'Might get one tick event after timer disabled, so verify it is still enabled
                StepState = Not StepState
                If StepState Then
                   RichTextBox1.Text = "Welcome"
                Else
                   RichTextBox1.Text = "Hello"
                End If
            End If
        End Sub
    End Class

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    Re: Execute While loop when button pressed

    I almost totally agree with passel. The one situation where using a loop would make sense here is if this was for a class (where it might be a requirement) or if those sleep_program() calls didn't really sleep. For all other cases, a timer would be the way to go.
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