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Setting up a 'Timeout' feature in windows forms app

Hi Dows anyone know how I can build a timeout feature into a windows forms app. The app is event driven, but I am thinking of somehow using a timer which counts down for say 10minutes, and one the timer ticks then we time out the user. The problem I have is how can I reset the timer each time the mouse is moved or clicked. Any help a...

Using the Android Gallery as an automated slideshow

Hi I want to create a splashscreen for an app, and have a gallery rotate several images on a timer. Can anyone show me how I could use a timer to animate the images in a Gallery? ...

Is there any possibility to pause&resume a TimerTask in Android?

I'm calling this tasks: TimerTask taskA = new ThreadA(this); TimerTask taskB = new ThreadB(this); tasks.add(taskA); tasks.add(taskB); timer.schedule(taskA, 10000); timer.schedule(taskB, 5000); And here are the two TimerTasks: public class ThreadA extends TimerTask { private Ghost ghost; public GhostThread(Ghost ghost) { ...

Using a TTimer For Adding Letters On a TextBox

I want to know how can I use a TTimer object to do an infinite loop, that should add the letter N on a TextBox every second. But without freezing the application. ...

Make a .net System.Timers.Timer fire immediately

I am using a Timer to run an event periodically on a reasonably long interval (2 minutes). This is working fine. However I would like the event to fire immediately when the timer is created (instead of waiting 2 minutes). Note that I can't do this just by calling the method, since it takes some time to run and would block the applicatio...

android set visibility of a button on timer

Hi, I have an app that shows a disclaimer at the beginning of the program. I want a button to remain invisible for a set amount of time, and then become visible. I set up a thread that sleeps for 5 seconds, and then tries to make the button visible. However ,I get this error when I execute my code: 08-02 21:34:07.868: ERROR/AndroidRunti...

What timer interval is best for timers that is used in virtual store?

I have written an application that can create adialog chance between visitors and site's own. It will used in a store in a country. This has 2 timers, one for announcing new visitors and one for transferring messages between visitor and site's own. Now i don't know what interval should i use for these timers?Do you know an article about ...

Linked list of timers in C

Hello people, I'm supposed to write a program with two functions: One function is responsible for building a data structure populated by a list of functions within a run (you get a function pointer) its run time (a few seconds after starting a given program running). You should know to operate the function, adding the data structure o...

Firing events at microsecond resolution for midi sequencer

Hi, Is there a way to fire events in C# at a resolution of a few microseconds? I am building a midi sequencer and it requires an event to be fired every midi tick which will then play any note registered at that time. At 120 beats per minute and at a resolution of 120 ppqn (pulses per beat/quarter note), that event should fire every 4....

canceling timers during weblogic shutdown

hi all i have an EAR project which runs on weblogic i have some timers in my application and i want to cancel them when i redeploy my EAR project. I have tried using PhaseListener but i could not access to my web module classes in phase listener. how could i do this task? thanks in advance ...

Problem with ScriptManager and ASP.NET AJAX Timer

Hello, I'm having a serious problem with my ASP.NET AJAX application. There is a javascript function in my application needs to be executed after the Timer_Tick event. Here's the code behind: void SetValues() { try { StringBuilder sbScript = new StringBuilder(); sbScript.Append("<script language='javascript' type='...

Android sdk & timers (Chronometer vs. Thread)

There are few built in ways to invoke a timer using the Android stack, A good example is the Chronometer. (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Chronometer.html) I would like to integrate piece of code (A thread)that implements timer using the Thread.sleep() method I plan to have a Service tat invoke this thread and co...

Simple app with timer is eating memory away ?

Hi, Can anybody explain why this tiny app's memory usage keeps increasing ? static class Program { private static System.Timers.Timer _TestTimer; [STAThread] static void Main() { _TestTimer = new System.Timers.Timer(); _TestTimer.Interval = 30; _TestTimer.Elapsed += new System.Timers.ElapsedEven...

How to raise only 1 Timer event in C#?

How do I get a timer event to fire one at a time. For example I have a timer that raises an event every 10 minutes. The event that is raised takes 10 or more minutes to finish executing. I would like the timer to reset AFTER the event has finished. In other words I do not want to raise more than 1 instance of the event at any one time. ...

A Java Program to run at particular time of day

Have any one scheduled a java program to run at particular time of day? Does platform make any difference? I am using Windows. ...

Simple Twisted server won't write with Timer

I'm just learning Python and Twisted and I can't figure out for the life of me why this simple server won't work. The self.transport.write doesn't work when called from a timer. I get no error at all. Any help appreciated. Thank you very much! from twisted.internet.protocol import Factory, Protocol from twisted.internet import reactor f...

EJB 3 timer or quartz how to automate my ejb method

Ive been looking online for a while and i cant seem to find a simple solution to my problem. I have an enterprise ejb 3.0 application that deploys on weblogic 10. I have no front end just back end. I need to setup quartz/timer at startup to schedule a job via cron trigger, this job is a method invoked on one of my stateless session beans...

PyGTK Timers and Maximized Windows

I have a timer in a PyGTK app, and it works fine --- until I maximize the window; then the timer stops firing. Has anyone experienced this? What can be done about it? Here's a code sample: import gtk, gobject files = ["C:/images/test1.jpg", "C:/images/test2.jpg", "C:/images/test3.jpg"] win = gtk.Window() win.set_title("Slideshow") ...

Retrieving a String out of a runnable/TimerTask

Hello I have implemented a timer that parses a URL every 15min (the Timer task). An Object that i have created gets that data .I use it afterwards to display the data on the screen . Now , whenever i try to retrieve that Object/a String=Object.toString() out of the runnable I get null pointer exception and fatal errors . My questio...

How to let Timer skip tick if the previous thread is still busy

Hey, I created a windows service, that is supposed to check a certain table in the db for new rows every 60 seconds. For every new row that was added, I need to do some heavy processing on the server that could sometimes take more than 60 seconds. I created a Timer object in my service, that ticks every 60 seconds and invokes the wante...