Pause not Sleep

[Cintury]

Hi All,

I'm developing a mobile app in VB and I was wondering if there was anyway to pause or wait a thread without putting it to sleep. I'm just trying to maintain a wireless network connection while I check internet connectivity for 30 secs but if I put the thread to sleep the connection itself closes. The current method is

_sleepTimeBetweenConnectTries = 900 'milliseconds 
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(_sleepTimeBetweenConnectTries)
 

I'm racking my brain and the sdk to see if there is a wait or pause or delay function but all I can find is sleep and that is not what I want.
Thanks

[kadghar]

Hi All,

I'm developing a mobile app in VB and I was wondering if there was anyway to pause or wait a thread without putting it to sleep. I'm just trying to maintain a wireless network connection while I check internet connectivity for 30 secs but if I put the thread to sleep the connection itself closes. The current method is

_sleepTimeBetweenConnectTries = 900 'milliseconds 
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(_sleepTimeBetweenConnectTries)
 

I'm racking my brain and the sdk to see if there is a wait or pause or delay function but all I can find is sleep and that is not what I want.
Thanks

this sub might be of help:

sub mySleep (Secs as single)
dim t as single
t=timer
do
    doevents
loop until (secs+t) <= timer
end sub

^.^

[Cintury]

this sub might be of help:

sub mySleep (Secs as single)
dim t as single
t=timer
do
    doevents
loop until (secs+t) <= timer
end sub

^.^

Thanks for the help I think your idea just might work but just a few errors. when I try to use timer I get this error:

'Timer' is ambiguous, imported from the namespaces or types 'System.Threading, System.Windows.Forms'.

[kadghar]

Thanks for the help I think your idea just might work but just a few errors. when I try to use timer I get this error:

'Timer' is ambiguous, imported from the namespaces or types 'System.Threading, System.Windows.Forms'.

Thats a problem, i suppose because of the Mobile system.

Timer will get the seconds that have passed this day, but any other function that calls the system time will do. I think you'll have to find out which one fits better here. (maybe 'NOW')

[Cintury]

Ok I've got the timer setup and I believe its running. I just need to create a busy (do nothing loop) until the timer hits its designated interval. This is what I have so far. I'm looking to exit the timer once the interval is up and return to the calling method. I just don't know how to compare the time object in the timer. I'm trying to setup a Do Nothing While timer.currenttime < timer.interval loop.

Private Sub StarthttpTimer(ByVal waitTime As Integer)
 
 
        httpTimer = New System.Windows.Forms.Timer
        httpTimer.Interval = waitTime
        httpTimer.Enabled = True
        onceStarted(httpTimer)
    End Sub
 
    'timer callback
    Private Sub onceStarted(ByVal hTimer As System.Windows.Forms.Timer)
        Do While hTimer (missing the required member call to access its current time)
        Loop
    End Sub