Pause Aplication

I want to pause my application in specific precedure for couple of seconds but I dont want to use System.Threading.Thread.Sleep coz I want all buttons to work during pause. I was thinking about using Timer that counts down but have some problems with implementation i posted here:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=711772&SiteID=1&mode=1

I also thought I could use it in a separate thread but also have problems to do so coz the method is run via delegate. Sorry if someone will feels this thread is spam but I wanted to poste something more general and I open for sugestions how to do it.

I stuck with this porblem for 2 days now and realy have to move one the program. And maybe it sounds lame but plz help.

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Pause Aplication

Ron2007
Ok, I know I'm noob but this is driving me nuts. How to read data from device that is sending text data to serialport (COM3) in a separete worker thread. And I need an exampel coz it is hard to understand just hearing that something like this exist.
techlist
If I had this decision I'd go for the separate worker thread. Add it to you source liobrary and you'll have it again the next time you need this functionality.
rguifarro
Finally a use Threading and as I had problems with setting new thread to event handler that use Invoke I was advice to move all SerialPort handling to separate class and initialize this class as a new Thread and for now it works like a dream. Just had to set some flags to communicate between threads.

Thx all for help.
Cheers
Aneo
John Oliver &#40;UK&#41;MSP, VSIP

Well you have pretty much run down the options available and left to pretty much nothing - how else do you expect to "pause" the application

you say you want to pause for a couple of seconds - but you dont want to use Thread.Sleep() and want to make the buttons still work - but a couple of seconds is nothing and most likely the user won't be "quickly" pressing any button any way.
Pause Aplication

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