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Big Pimpin
Big Pimpin

Reputation: 437

StopWatch Or Timer

The timer in my opinion is not very accurate when it displays time from its _Tick() Method. I am wanting to show elapsed time in minutes/seconds show the length of time a procedure takes to complete. I have used this with the Timer but have discovered it's calculations are incorrect. Which is why I wanted to ask would a StopWatch be better to show more accurately or is their a separate control that I should be using altogether?

private int timepassed = 0;
private void buttonFourteen_Click(object sender, DragEventArgs e)
{
  timer2.Start();
  var backgroundWorker = new BackgroundWorker();
  backgroundWorker.DoWork += (s, e) =>
  {
    //Lengthy Procedure Goes Here
  };
  backgroundWorker.RunWorkerCompleted += (s, e) =>
  {
    timer2.Stop();
  };
  backgroundWorker.RunWorkerAsync();
}
private void timer2_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  timepassed++;
  timedisplay.Text = timepassed.ToString();
}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 5551

Answers (2)

Rufus L
Rufus L

Reputation: 37020

Here's one way to accomplish this with a stop watch, which should be very accurate:

private readonly Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
private readonly System.Windows.Forms.Timer timer = new System.Windows.Forms.Timer();

public Form1()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    timer.Tick += timer2_Tick;
}

private void buttonFourteen_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    sw.Restart();
    timer.Start();
    var backgroundWorker = new BackgroundWorker();

    // Simulating a 10-second process for testing
    backgroundWorker.DoWork += (s, ea) => Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));

    backgroundWorker.RunWorkerCompleted += (s, ea) => timer.Stop();
    backgroundWorker.RunWorkerAsync();
}

private void timer2_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    timedisplay.Text = sw.Elapsed.ToString("g");

    // Or use a custom time format (you can specify precision as well as
    // delimiters between days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds):
    // timedisplay.Text = sw.Elapsed.ToString(@"dd\.hh\:mm\:ss\.ff");
}

Upvotes: 2

Travis
Travis

Reputation: 699

System.Diagnostics.StopWatch is the typical method for tracking this sort of thing. If you are using VS and are just trying to do performance checks, you could also profile the code while will give you a good idea of how much time is spent in each method.

Upvotes: 2

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