C#•3y ago

✅ best way to snooze winforms

I have a win forms app with a snooze button, once the snooze button is clicked i need to make the form disappear and make it appear after 30 mins and rn I'm doing a form.hide and thread.sleep(30 mins in millisecs). Is this the right way or is there anything else i can do here?

Jimmacle•6/1/23, 5:08 PM

thread.sleep bad, use a timer with a callback to show the form again

Jimmacle•6/1/23, 5:08 PM

otherwise you're blocking your form's thread for 30 minutes and if a message comes in for it to process it won't be able to

ShinigamiOP•6/1/23, 5:09 PM

Right, although in my case nothing will happen in 30 mins but i want to use best practices.

ShinigamiOP•6/1/23, 5:09 PM

How do i get started with timer?

Jimmacle•6/1/23, 5:10 PM

you won't do anything in 30 minutes, but there are other things happening in the background to make the window "work"

Jimmacle•6/1/23, 5:10 PM

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.timers.timer?view=net-7.0

Timer Class (System.Timers)

Generates an event after a set interval, with an option to generate recurring events.

Jimmacle•6/1/23, 5:10 PM

there are multiple types of timer but this one should work for what you're doing

ShinigamiOP•6/1/23, 5:11 PM

Thank you, imma look into it

Jimmacle•6/1/23, 5:11 PM

basically sleeping your main thread for that long will make the form look like it's not responding

ShinigamiOP•6/1/23, 5:11 PM

Right I'm hiding it before sleeping it tho

ShinigamiOP•6/1/23, 5:11 PM

I get what you're saying

Jimmacle•6/1/23, 5:12 PM

i mean the OS will also think it's not responding if you look at the process in task manager or something

ShinigamiOP•6/1/23, 5:12 PM

Righttt, gotcha in task manager it might say not responding/ suspended

ShinigamiOP•6/1/23, 5:12 PM

And user might kill it too

Mayor McCheese•6/2/23, 1:02 AM

I concur timer is the right way to go

ShinigamiOP•6/2/23, 7:37 AM

Thanks guys, i did some researching and made it work