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Hi!
I have DO WHILE LOOP and I placed Application.Dovents necessarily inside the loop. I just wonder would it be possible to make the loop hanging for a specific of time but same time I should be able to perform other actions in application. I decided to use System.Threading.Thread.sleep() but it is locking the application for defined time and Application.Doevents becomes useless. I need your advice. The scenario is held inside a private procedure. I wish there would be a statement to suspend processing of a procedure inside the application for specific of time 
Thank you all.
What a curious mind needs to discover knowledge is noting else than a pin-hole.
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Would you not first create a new thread for your DO WHILE LOOP and System.Threading.Thread.sleep() that one and not the app. thread?
Jelle
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Thanks for replying. I am just new about threads in vb.net and I couldn't find an example how to create a new one. The application.wait also hangs the whole application.
Actually it is a game project user versus to computer in making words with given letters. But it takes only a second for puter to come up with words. Therefore, I want to make puter waiting for a specific of time before it places words on the board. This action is held inside a Do WHILE LOOP and I eventually placed Application.Doevents for user inside the loop. The puter has to wait inside the loop. Eventually I can solve the problem but I was looking for a statement for that.
Thanks.
What a curious mind needs to discover knowledge is noting else than a pin-hole.
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If your not running the code on a secondary thread then the only way I believe is what I think you've already done. Use a loop that loops for a specified period of time and use application.doevents inside the loop so it doesn't lock your application.
If you use a secondary thread to do the processing you could just call threading.sleep. But doing so on the UI thread will as you've discovered cause the UI to appear hung.
If you'd rather use a secondary thread look into the backgroundworker component. It's pretty easy to use.
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With the additional info I believe your approach is over complicating things.
I would use a new thread for a complicated and time consuming task where the app can do better things then just waiting. Yours however, if I understand you right, has a "simple" and "Quick" task you like to delay.
Better not take that task and only start it after the delay? You could just use a timer to start it. If it is essential that the "computer" is producing it's answer character by character then maybe it is the "adding characters bit" you want to delay? This possibly allows a re-compute of the computer task if it needs to respond to users input. Is all that relevant?
I am looking forward to your comments.
Jelle
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Thanks Jelle! I did so and now it is working. 
What a curious mind needs to discover knowledge is noting else than a pin-hole.
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![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) i need a way to make a demo software that run for a limit date
if this soulution in using registery how could i make
the registery safe because any body can access registery
and changed the value plz
ahmad
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You really can't do much more than anyone else does, which is to hide the values in either a file, or the register. A common way to do it, is to have a couple of files called xxx.dll ( whatever ) in your app directory, and have junk in them. Just modify specific bytes in those files to store things like the date the app will expire, and the last date the app was used. You need the latter to work out if time ever goes backwards. If it does by more than an hour ( don't forget daylight savings time ), then odds are the user is playing around to kill your protection. But, don't forget about people who travel, my notebook clock goes back 18 hours regularly.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
"I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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I've tried so many methods so far. Still, I cant read a bitmap image (get the specify information of the bitmap image). Please help me to get over the problem.
Thanks alot!!!
hehe
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What have you tried ?
Dim bm as Bitmap
bm = new Bitmap("c:\myfile.bmp")
bm = Bitmap.FromFile("c:\myfile.bmp)
What else ?
If you want to get at the bitmap bits, VB.NET is kind of useless for that, read my articles on image processing in C#, you're better off writing a C# dll to handle it. You can use GetPixel, but it's slower.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
"I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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Hi,
I am converting Word to Html, but I am losing all my footers and headers. Is there any way to retain them?
I am using the MS Word Object 9 library.
I would really appreciate help on this as I have spent ages looking for any answer.
Kind regards,
Polly Anna
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First, this has nothing to do with VB.NET.
Next, you'll have to convert them to sperate HTML SPAN sections yourself. There are no such things as Headers and Footers in HTML.
Dave Kreskowiak
Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic
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Thank you so much - this is a big help.
Kind regards,
Polly
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Hello,
I've a Textbox on my form and my locale and regional Language settings are Standard English(UK). I want to allow the Greek characters to be typed and displayed in the textbox(or rich textbox) and at the same time want to get it's KeyValue (like the ascii key value A = 65) so that certain check can be performed.
Any Help would be really appreciated?
Jon.
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Hello all!
i want to add my custom attribute to a Control member of a form. For exmaple there is the following code line:
<myattribute()> _ Public WithEvents grdTest as DataGridView
Now, at runtime, i want to read the the information of the MyAttribute instance of the grdTest-Control but when i call GetCustomAttributes of the PropertyInfo of the grdTest control instance the resulting array has zero elements ... it seems, that the changes i made in the TestForm.Designer.vb are not compiled ...
has anyone any idea?
greets
testy
solidIT.de - under construction
Components for Microsoft .Net
audittrail, objectcomparer, deepcopy and much more ...
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Do attributes use < and > in VB, instead of [] ?
BTW, check 'Ignore HTML tags' for those to show up in your post.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++
Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
"I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )
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argh!!!
thank you.... hmm ... yes: in VB you must use "<" and ">" and if you want to write it in multiple lines (like in C#) ... you must write an underscore... that is very "un-handy" (??)
<MyAttribute> _
<YourAttribute> _
Public Sub Test()
End Sub
the code line looks like:
<MyAttribute> Public WithEvents grdTest as DataGridView
solidIT.de - under construction
Components for Microsoft .Net
audittrail, objectcomparer, deepcopy and much more ...
-- modified at 10:47 Tuesday 27th March, 2007
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hi. my question is how can i make a form in vb.net that retrieves the usernames from mysql database of the forum that i have hosted in the www.awardspace.com.
Im new in this things of databases and im building a app that shows all the usernames registered but this part is making my head spin. lol
Sorry for the bad english, im portuguese.
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Well first you will need something to list those in, .NET 1.1 would be a DataGrid, .NET 2.0 will be a DataGridView. You need to create some type of stored procedure or parameterized query that will access the database and return a dataset of names that you will then set as the datasource to the DataGridView and can then call .DataBind.
The good thing about .NET 2.0 is that they make it much more simple that it even needs to be so people can easily create bad code and foster bad habits but if it is just a simple application that will be used internally by yourself you can probably get away with it. Any of the concepts you dont understand can easily be searched for with Google and you will get some greate articles with step by step instructions.
CleaKO
"I think you'll be okay here, they have a thin candy shell. 'Surprised you didn't know that.'" - Tommy (Tommy Boy)
"Fill it up again! Fill it up again! Once it hits your lips, it's so good!" - Frank the Tank (Old School)
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the connection is my problem, i have no idea how to connect to database, the only tutorials i found in the net is how to connect to mysql database in local computer, but my database is hosted in anothet site, more especific in www.awardspace.com.
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Ahhh, I see. Well then you will need to have access through any security on the site and probably the IP address of the database. When you are remote instead of accessing SQLServer01 you would access 999.999.999.999 or whatever the IP is. As long as you have THAT piece and you have access into the server then everything should be the same.
Just in case you need it - www.connectionstrings.com[^].
CleaKO
"I think you'll be okay here, they have a thin candy shell. 'Surprised you didn't know that.'" - Tommy (Tommy Boy)
"Fill it up again! Fill it up again! Once it hits your lips, it's so good!" - Frank the Tank (Old School)
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nice. thanks.
that help alot, now i just need to figure out to use it. lol my app is cuurently connecting to a access database but that sucks because every time the users use it the program have to upload it via FTP to the server again.
Did you have any example of how to use the connection string?
in any case thanks for the help
Cheers
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Provider=999.999.999.999;Data Source=mydb;User Id=myUsername; Password=myPassword; What is it that you need an example of?
CleaKO
"I think you'll be okay here, they have a thin candy shell. 'Surprised you didn't know that.'" - Tommy (Tommy Boy)
"Fill it up again! Fill it up again! Once it hits your lips, it's so good!" - Frank the Tank (Old School)
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well tahnks to the help you give me in the other replys i finally has able do get it.
but now i going to have to host the database in my computer.
the awardspace server does not accept remote connections. i have no other choice but to host in my own pc. thanks for your help
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