Wait set time for user input C# console app

Question

For a Console app, I need to know how to wait at set amount of time (about 10 seconds), for a user to input a key or set of keys, before proceeding with an 'auto run' portion of the application.

This is bugging me because I can't quite figure out how the timer works, or threading.sleep, what should I use? Been googling all day.

some psuedocode:

1.app opens

2.app waits 10 secs for user to hit the "k" key.

3.if user hits k, go to 4. if user does not, go to 5.

4.run a function(open a form)

5.run a function(do something)

I bet its simple, I just don't understand whats going on.

Solution 1

Set a 10 second timer off.

Fire an event when the timer expires.

In the event handler proceed with the "auto run" section.

If the user hits a key before the timer expires, kill the thread.

The Timer class page on MSDN has an example of a timer waiting for a set period.

Solution 2

Thanks Marlon!! It really helped me a lot..

I used following code:

int minutes = 1;
while (true)
{
   if (Console.KeyAvailable)
   {
        ConsoleKeyInfo c = Console.ReadKey(true);
    if (c.Key == ConsoleKey.Enter)
    {
            break;
    }
   }
   Thread.Sleep(1000);
   if (minutes++ > 10)
   {
    throw;
   }
}