Creating a delay in a loop without Thread.Sleep()

Question

User56046257 posted

i have a web browser control, that refreshes pages on a loop after calling a few subs, i need to create a delay in the loop so that the page has a chance to refresh and redisplay before it loops again. i tried the code below, but it seemed to freeze the entire form, elements including, so the web browser didnt refresh before the loop, so how could i create a non form-freezing delay for a loop?

For count = 1 To 20
WebBrowser1.Navigate("URL")
simcheckcheck()
vitcheckcheck()
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(7000)

Answer 1

User197322208 posted

Put this

WebBrowser1.Navigate("URL")

on other thread / task.

Answer 2

User56046257 posted

sorry if this sounds like a silly question, but how does this help? surely if the object is frozen then being activated in a different sub will have little difference.

Answer 3

User197322208 posted

Thread.Sleep works in the current thread. If you put 

Navigate 
in another thread, it does not sleep.

Answer 4

User839249405 posted

Hi,

using System.Threading;

Thread thread2 = new Thread(new ThreadStart(WorkThreadFunction));
thread2.Start();

[C#]
public void WorkThreadFunction()
{
  try
  {
    For count = 1 To 20 
 WebBrowser1.Navigate("URL")
  }
  catch (Exception ex)
  {
    // log errors
  }
}