[voodookittyrob]

How would one receive a value from a function while it is running?

[Martyr2]

Well the idea is that once you return you leave the function. That is the thought behind what a function is, takes some input, does some calculations and returns the result. It would be like asking how do you return PI while you are executing a function to calculate the area of a circle. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Now if you are looking to do something over and over again on a timed basis, then you could simply use a timer control to call a function (or return a variable value). For that look into the timer_tick event of the timer control. This event is fired every so many X milliseconds based on the interval you give the timer.

But as far as returning a value from a function as it is doing something else is not the way things work.

Perhaps you can show us what you are looking to do.

[T3hC13h]

Is this a kinda what your trying to do?

Imports System.Threading

Module Program
	Private int_PassOut As Integer 
	private obj_Lock as New Object
	Sub Main()
		ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem(new WaitCallback(addressof work),nothing)
		While True
			SyncLock(obj_lock)
				Console.WriteLine(Int_passOut)
			End SyncLock
			Thread.Sleep(300)
		End While
	End Sub
	Private Sub Work()
		While True
			SyncLock(obj_Lock)
			int_passOut+= 1
			End SyncLock
			Thread.Sleep(150)
		End While
	End Sub
End Module