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Jeazyee
Jeazyee

Reputation: 73

C# loop for x milliseconds

I am creating a bot which shall excecute mouseclicks as long as the timer goes but not longer than this. Like leftmouseclick than for 387ms it should do/spam rightmouseclick and wait 10ms between each click of rightmouseclick

Now I am searching for a way to do/spam the rightmouseclick in a loop for some milliseconds (not in an interval!).

Like:

for(387ms)
{
   doSomething(); // doSomething() is rightmouseclick in my case
   wait(10ms);
}

Where doSomething() gets excecuted as much as possible inside the 387ms timeframe and the wait(10ms) shouldn't affect the time remaining like I think it would be when using Thread.Sleep(10)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1797

Answers (2)

Michael Puckett II
Michael Puckett II

Reputation: 6749

Here are two methods, TimeLoop and TimeLoopAsync that will loop an action for a specific amount of time at a specific delay. Take what you need from it but it will accomplish what you're looking for.

using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace ConsoleApp3
{
    class Program
    {
        static async Task Main(string[] args)
        {
            const int TotalTimeMS = 200;
            const int DelayMS = 10;
            TimeLoop(() =>
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"First {DateTime.Now.Ticks}");
            }, TotalTimeMS, DelayMS);

            await TimeLoopAsync(() =>
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"Second {DateTime.Now.Ticks}");
            }, TotalTimeMS, DelayMS);

            Console.WriteLine("Done");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }

        public static void TimeLoop(Action action, int totalTime, int delay)
        {
            var futureTime = DateTime.Now.AddMilliseconds(totalTime);
            while (futureTime > DateTime.Now)
            {
                action.Invoke();
                Thread.Sleep(delay);                
            }
        }

        public static async Task TimeLoopAsync(Action action, int totalTime, int delay)
        {
            var futureTime = DateTime.Now.AddMilliseconds(totalTime);
            while (futureTime > DateTime.Now)
            {
                action.Invoke();
                await Task.Delay(delay);
            }
        }
    }
}
//OUTPUTS
//First 636813466330097482
//First 636813466330207562
//First 636813466330317509
//First 636813466330427504
//First 636813466330537519
//First 636813466330647498
//First 636813466330757504
//First 636813466330867485
//First 636813466330977501
//First 636813466331087479
//First 636813466331197483
//First 636813466331307522
//First 636813466331417580
//First 636813466331527516
//First 636813466331637533
//First 636813466331747513
//Second 636813466331867481
//Second 636813466332197479
//Second 636813466332317508
//Second 636813466332427498
//Second 636813466332647472
//Second 636813466332757495
//Second 636813466332977526
//Second 636813466333087469
//Second 636813466333197468
//Second 636813466333417483
//Second 636813466333527481
//Second 636813466333757457
//Done

Upvotes: -1

Hasan
Hasan

Reputation: 1298

I guess while is more appropiate for this and you can call below function to get what you want.

    public void TimerLoop(int ms)
    {
        var now = DateTime.Now; 
        while(DateTime.Now < now.AddMilliseconds(ms))
        {   
        //do your stuff here
        }
    }

Upvotes: 3

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