Hi all,

I am having one confusion regarding windows based timer.

I read somewhere that

'Be careful with stopping, because stopped timers are disabled and are
subject to garbage collection. That means that stopped timers can not
be started again.'


I have one application containing start and stop and i am using windows
based timer.

But after clicking on stop and starting the timer again it is working
properly. And i haven't reinitialize timer object.

I am not getting whether statement which i mention above is right and
am i doing something wrong.

Please correct me if i am wrong.

Thanks in advance.

This quote doesn't sound right to me...

Garbage collection only occurs when something goes out of sight of all
accessible objects (allowing for weak-references) - so if you can still see
it, it shouldn't be collected... and if you /can't/ see it (and it is
stopped, so not firing any events), then you can't restart it anyhows...

I'm willing to believe I could be wrong, though!

Marc

Hi,

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Not completety right, it may say that a timer with no reference to it can be
GC if stopped.
If you keep a reference to the timer it will not be GC'ed and will behave as
another regular object.

Where did you read that ?



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