System.Threadin.Thread.Sleep HELP :S

[Krillere]

Ok, im trying to make a new spambot in C# but i have this problem with System.Threading.Thread.Sleep. Heres my code.

string Intervalw = textBox1.Text;
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(Intervalw);

Something like that is needed, but i get 2 errors.

1:

Error    1    The best overloaded method match for 'System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(System.TimeSpan)' has some invalid arguments    C:\Users\Sørensen\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\Krilleres iZpams C\Krilleres iZpams C\Form1.cs    42    17    Krilleres iZpams C

2:

Error    2    Argument '1': cannot convert from 'string' to 'System.TimeSpan'    C:\Users\Sørensen\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\Krilleres iZpams C\Krilleres iZpams C\Form1.cs    42    47    Krilleres iZpams C

Im a beginner at C# so i dont know what i should to, google didnt help me so i was hoping you would be able to. Please dont flame me for being a nab :P

[Clain]

You need to typecast intervalw from a string to a "TimeSpan", can't post any code because I'm not on my laptop atm, perhaps someone else will.

[Krillere]

I dont understand O.o As i said im a complete noob, can you just make an example? Just a short one like the one i made in the post :P

Edit: Ok, gonna try google it to get some help. Hopefully ill find out how to do it. I want to post a better bot this time ^^

[Clain]

TimeSpan span = TimeSpan.Parse(TextBox1.Text);
Thread.Sleep(intervalw);

[Krillere]

Omg. Im just gonna try this, if it works you just got yourself some rep! :-)

[Krillere]

Ok. Seems like it works. Now i got another question ( Sorry )

In AutoIt you could just write Time * 1000 so that you wouldnt have to write Miniseconds in the spambot, what do i have to write in C#?

I know, im a nab..

[Apoc]

int sleepTime = int.Parse(textBox1.Text) * 1000; // Add *60 if you want to change it to minutes, instead of seconds.
Thread.Sleep(sleepTime);

That assumes textBox1.Text is something like '5' or whatever. Not 5:00 or something.

In all honesty though, I suggest you use a NumericUpDown control instead of a text box to avoid any mistaken user input.

[Clain]

EDIT: Apawk got me

[Krillere]

Thanks alot Apoc, should i use this instead of the Timespan thing? .-)

[Apoc]

Thanks alot Apoc, should i use this instead of the Timespan thing? .-)

In your case, yes.

The TimeSpan overload is really only useful if you're doing long processes that are made to run for a looooooooooooooong time. (Usually over 10 minutes or so)

Eg; I use the TimeSpan overload when working with wakeup timers and whatnot in certain services. (Sleep a background thread for 2-4 hours, to wake up, sent off a notification to other services, and go back to sleep)

[Krillere]

Ok. I got another crappy nab question. In AutoIt this is called WinActivate, in VB, AppActivate, whats it called in C#? I need to activate Wow, i read some stuff about SetForeGround, but it requires alot of preperations and i want to know what im writing now just write it, so im not gonna do that. I also read some stuff about making a VB Reference. I dont know anything about it really, but the VB reference thing seems like something i might use. But can anyone can tell me the best way to AppActivate / WinActivate in C#? :-)

[Jens]

just wrote this out of memory, but it should work

 DllImport("user32.dll")]
publicstaticexternbool SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr hWnd);

System.Diagnostics.Process[] p = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("Wow");
 if (p.Length > 0)
{ 
    SetForegroundWindow(p[0].MainWindowHandle);
}


 

[Krillere]

Ok. I copy pasted what you wrote in my program, and i got 13 errors, just gonna try to fix it.

Edit. 5 errors left! Just gonna post the picture because i dont know what to do :S

[Apoc]

PInvokes (DllImports) are considered methods. So they need to be within class scope. Not member/method scope. (Just put it outside of your Whisper_Tick method.

    DllImport("user32.dll")]
    public static extern bool SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr hWnd);

    private void Whisper_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        System.Diagnostics.Process[] p = System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcessesByName("Wow");
        if (p.Length > 0)
        { 
            SetForegroundWindow(p[0].MainWindowHandle);
            // Do your other stuff in here.
        }
    }

[MaiN]

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

[DllImport("user32.dll")]
    static extern bool SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr hWnd);

SetForegroundWindow(Process.GetProcessesByName("wow")[0].Handle);

Assuming it's for activating WoW.exe, ofc.