Android Question How to fire a timer before its interval

[Alberto Michelis]

Hi,
I have a service with a timer of 10 seconds.
The timer fires a routine which reads some data from the web
I need to tell the service to read that data "now" no mater what the timer is set on.
Any Idea?
Thanks

 

[NJDude]

Just call the _Tick sub when you need it.

 

[Alberto Michelis]

and what if the timer calls it at the sema time?

 

[Alberto Michelis]

and how do I call it from inside the same service? I can check a main variable in the service timer but haw does the timer know I need to call its own _tock sub?

 

[RandomCoder]

You can just call the sub like you would any other sub. But personally I think it's better to move all the code out of the tick event and into a new subroutine. Then you can call this sub from the tick event or from anywhere else in your code.
It really makes no difference but I just like to have event driven subs fired by the events and not manually called in the code, in my opinion it makes the code easier to follow.

 

[Beja]

Sub TimerBruteForce
    tmTimer.Enablled = False
    tmTimer.Enablled = True
End Sub
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Sub btnButton_Click
   TimerBruteForce
End Sub

 

[Alberto Michelis]

The Sub I need to call is in a service which fires it with a timer.
What happen if I call the service sub from another module "at the same time" as it was called by the service itself?

 

[RandomCoder]

It is still running on the main thread and so it can only occur one after the other. If your not wanting to repeat the process in the Tick event just use a Process Gloabl variable to set whether your function has been run or not.