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Im trying to track how long between certain things happening in my app. When the first event happens im adding the time to an array like this: myArrList.Add(DateTime.Now);
Then when the next event happens im retreiving it from the array and doing this:
TimeSpan diff = DateTime.Now - (DateTime)myArrList[x];
But for some reason it always gets like 0.02 seconds. Which makes me think that its doing the current time minus the current time(and the 0.02 is the time it takes between finding the first time and the second).
So how do i do this properly?
Am I adding a reference to DateTime.Now into the array instead of just the value?
Thanks
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No, when you get DateTime.Now you get just that - the time now, which will not change thereafter. So if you write
DateTime dt = DateTime.Now;
at noon, dt will still say noon at 13:00.
How long is the actual interval between the two events? Are we talking microseconds? Seconds? Minutes? How frequently is your event happening? Once? Or every (say) 20ms?
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Well it is usually around a second or less
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You might want to take a look at the Stopwatch[^] class
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Looks good! TY
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roguemat wrote: Am I adding a reference to DateTime.Now
No. DateTime is a value time (a struct), no references involved.
roguemat wrote: it always gets like 0.02 seconds
DateTime.Now as well as the system clock get updated only a few times a second (typ. 60 Hz); see my timers article. If you need better accuracy, use a Stopwatch.
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Will check it out thanks!
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Hi , I am developing software to read the tiff images. i need to read the text written in tiff images programmatically in c#. I have lakhs of tiff image to process it for cleaning and reading. also i want to develop thumbnails programmatically of those tiff scanned images.
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Lalit Singh
Programmer Analyst
Hitech Outsourcing Services
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How about searching it in codeproject, search for "OCR". You find lots of article of it.
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Salut,
Lorsque je click sur le multicolumncombo, je veux avoir une table de 2 colonnes qui ont pour noms codeArticle et
description et cette table est remplie à partir de la base de données.En selectionnant une ligne,la description
sera affichée.Est-ce qu'il y a quelqu'un qui peut m'aider à faire ceci?
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Vous obtiendrez une réponse plus rapide si vous utilisez l'anglais.
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Here's a 5 just for making the effort to translate it.
Why is common sense not common?
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Vous pourriez avoir plus de chance demandant aux auteurs de ces contrôles dans leur forum de support comme la plupart des gens ici n'ont pas travaillé avec ces contrôles.
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Parlez-vous de contrôle d'élaborer sur mesure?
Il n'ya rien comme combo multi-colonnes en. NET.
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MultiColumnCombo est un contrôle de la bibliothèque janus.
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Hi, I'm currently working on a cyber cafe program and I need to use 2 timers for each table's calculations and there are 25 tables(pc's).The question is, does using many timers(with 100ms intervals) have any impact on the performance?
And referring to 2 timers, there are two different calculations(time and price)which occur at different intervals.Is it possible to handle them in one timer?
last question(sorry  ) Is it good to make all controls and variables public to access from other forms?
Your help would be appreciated,thanks
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I can answer the last, and probably the second of those.
teknolog123 wrote: two different calculations(time and price)which occur at different intervals.Is it possible to handle them in one timer?
Only if the two intervals happen at multiples of each other. If one is due at 100ms and the other at 123ms intervals, then you cannot handle them both easily from the same timer. If one is due ate 100ms and the other at 500ms intervals, then yes, just count 5 instances of the timer event.
teknolog123 wrote: Is it good to make all controls and variables public to access from other forms?
No. This is very bad practice as it locks the design of your form, and you cannot change it without making changes in an unknown number of other forms. Use public properties instead, as the underlying form elements are hidden and can be changed without affecting external code.
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I already use public properties for variables but have no idea what would be the best way to access another form's controls without compromising performance.Any idea?
thanks
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It is really not a good idea to directly access the controls on another form: If you later change from say 5 text boxes to a single listview, then how many other forms are dependant on that code? You have find and modify all of those. Instead, use public methods and properties - I wouldn't worry to much about any performance hit, it is cheaper to upgrade the PC than to waste programmer time fixing problems you create with bad design in the first place!
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Hi,
I see no problem in running 50 timers at once. (I tested with Windows.Forms.Timers)
If all intervals are 100 msec, then:
1) your average handler should finish in 2 milliseconds, otherwise your app will accumulate a delay;
2) I see no reason to have separate timers, as they will all tick at the same time;
Anyway:
1) I would avoid running that many timers; it tells me something is wrong in your design; I would start by using one timer for everything, and add many handlers to it.
2) It seems to me you are polling something, rather than relying on events. What is it that you are testing in the tick handler?
3) why would you need a 100 msec interval? are you charging customers for connection time up to a fraction of a second???
Luc Pattyn
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Luc Pattyn wrote: 1) I would avoid running that many timers; it tells me something is wrong in your design; I would start by using one timer for everything, and add many handlers to it.
Could you please give me an example of adding handler to a timer?
Luc Pattyn wrote: 2) It seems to me you are polling something, rather than relying on events. What is it that you are testing in the tick handler?
Basicly the timer will increase the price and time every x minutes, that's it(all pc's will increase at the same interval even if some pc's are off and some are on)
Luc Pattyn wrote: 3) why would you need a 100 msec interval? are you charging customers for connection time up to a fraction of a second???
No I am not that miser. There are times that I give customers extra plus or minus minutes for delays/breaks. And of course this action requires changes on the time and price.When I use intervals like x minutes, It doesn't update the form right away
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Hi,
myTimer.Tick+=new EventHandler(t_Tick);
myTimer.Tick+=myFirstHandler;
myTimer.Tick+=mySecondHandler;
...
myTimer.Tick+=myTenthHandler;
teknolog123 wrote: the timer will increase the price and time every x minutes,
and that is why it ticks at 100 msec intervals??
teknolog123 wrote: When I use intervals like x minutes, It doesn't update the form right away
So you did something wrong in the implementation. That's no reason to alter your design.
I'll stick with a single timer, and have it run every 1 or 10 seconds or so. And I'd make sure all the forms show up-to-date information all the time.
Luc Pattyn
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Luc Pattyn wrote: see no problem in running 50 timers at once
This could be a huge problem depending on what operating system.
Terminal server 2000 will lock up (even with 1 timer you get that chance)
Terminal server 2003 will maybe lock up
All the rest are ok tho (haven't tested it with TS 2008)
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I'm not familiar with Terminal Server, I only consider serious operating systems such as Windows XP and Windows Vista (I'll probably add Windows Seven to the list next year).
Obviously all functionality in the end would be limited by some system metric (available CPU power, memory size, disk size, bus bandwidth, etc.); and some by deliberate restrictions...
Luc Pattyn
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