It was my understanding that a Timer is explicitly executed in it's own thread. Is this correct? I need to have a full time monitor in the background of my application that monitors possibly machine faults and inputs. I also read on this forum(EE) that A Timer will require attention by your program before it can execute any other code. In this case, Would a background thread be best for my application? Also, I need to constantly update variables by sending a command using an ActiveX control to a PCI card. After I send the request to the card, it responds (<.1 ms). I need to constantly check the inputs for changes, so i would need to throw a timer on the Send command to the PCI Card. Is this a good way of going about it (Timer inside an explicitly created Thread), or is there another recommendation.
Also, I have been trying to create a Timer in a Module, but I cannot seem to have any luck with the "Tick" event. I do the following:
Module 1
Public Sub FaultMonitor()
Dim FaultTimer as New System.Timer
FaultTimer.Interval = 200
FaultTimer.Enabled = True
End Sub
End Module
How do I execute code when the timer ticks? I cannot seem to get it working, and I have been trying to base my code off the Timer tick events that I have on my forms, without any luck.
P.S. I asked a question similar to this before, but Now that I have researched more, I am more confused :/. Sorry if this is viewed as a re-post, I am just trying to understand how it all works.
Thanks!
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