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Stopwatch- Best approach

parker_dave

I am writing an app to track elapsed time for bike racer. I can start a stopwatch OK, in a window that displays overall time and elapsed time. I want to be able to open a child window to enter individual ride rs numbers and then capture the elapsed time for that rider by pressing a button or Enter key. Is there a way to grab the stopwa tchs elapsed time from one window to another? I tried setting up a class that used the stopwatch but I still have to do a Stopwatch sw = new stopwatch() in the different windows which, of course, gets me a new one. Is there a way to create a unveral or global stopwatch?

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Alan18y ago
You can create a global stopwatch by adding a static field to the Program class (in program.cs) which contains your Main() method:

     static class Program
     {
        internal static System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch Stopwatch = new System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch();

        [STAThread]
        static void Main()
        {
          // blah
        }
     }

You can now easily reference the Stopwatch from anywhere in the application. For example, to start it:

Program.Stopwatch.Start();