I need to be able to delay the event handlers for some controls (like a button) to be fired for example after 1 sec of the actual event (click event for example) .. is this possible by the .net framework ?
I use a timer and call my code from the timer's tick event as below but I am not sure if this is the best approach !
void onButtonClick( ..)
{
timer1.Enabled = true;
}
void onTimerTick( ..)
{
timer.Enabled = false;
CallMyCodeNow();
}
My solution uses System.Threading.Timer:
public static class ExecuteWithDelay
{
class TimerState
{
public Timer Timer;
}
public static Timer Do(Action action, int dueTime)
{
var state = new TimerState();
state.Timer = new Timer(o =>
{
action();
lock (o) // The locking should prevent the timer callback from trying to free the timer prior to the Timer field having been set.
{
((TimerState)o).Timer.Dispose();
}
}, state, dueTime, -1);
return state.Timer;
}
}