Pause

[Jeremy Martin]

Hello,

I have come across a weared situation. I need to come up with a way to have a function pause in a particular place for x numbers of seconds without tying up the processor. I tried using a loop and just add to a variable but that will keep the processor bussy.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jeremy

[hellswraith]

Something like this:

Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.Sleep(x)

Like if you wanted it to sleep for 10 seconds, you would put 10000 for x. 1000 equals one second.

[mindloop]

hmm i keep seeing this solution for pause, and i know it works in vb.net, i used it alot, yet in c# i keep ending up with this compiler error:

C:\C#\prjQuickSort\MainForm.cs(270): Static member 'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(int)' cannot be accessed with an instance reference; qualify it with a type name instead

[Pirate]

hmm i keep seeing this solution for pause, and i know it works in vb.net, i used it alot, yet in c# i keep ending up with this compiler error:

As the compiler says : qualify Sleep method with the fullname(you should do this with any static member) . Maybe if you show some code , we could help .

[mindloop]

there's no need, just try using Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.Sleep(x);
in c#, i'm pretty sure you will get the same error.
please correct me if i'm wrong.

[mindloop]

curiously Thread.Sleep(x); does the trick...

[mindloop]

You just made me curious, what do you mean with

qualify Sleep method with the fullname(you should do this with any static member)

?
how do i do that ?

[Pirate]

You just made me curious, what do you mean with ?
how do i do that ?

It's like this :
System.Threading.Thread.StaticMethodxxxx (this is fully-qualified name) .
You don't have to create an instance obj though .

I used Thread.Sleep(x); like (7 times) in one of my apps , it works with no errors at all .

[mindloop]

i know , just wanted to point out, after a massive search on the forum that the sollution Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.Sleep(x) was always suggested and it's broken.
bout your last post i must dig into that a bit. static modifier is pretty interesting... thx

[DNA7433]

VB.NET lets you access shared methods through instances of objects or the class name. C# only allows you to use the class name. Go figure.