Ping requests can now be started and stopped on demand.

TimedShutdown/PingWidget.cs

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ namespace TimedShutdown
     public class PingWidget
     {
         IPAddress _ipAddress = IPAddress.None;
-        public bool IsCancellationRequested { get; set; } = false;
+        public bool WidgetHasInitialized { get; private set; } = false;
 
         BackgroundWorker contPingBackgroundWorker = new BackgroundWorker();
 
@@ -17,10 +17,23 @@ namespace TimedShutdown
         {
             _ipAddress = ipAddress;
 
+            contPingBackgroundWorker.WorkerSupportsCancellation = true;
             contPingBackgroundWorker.DoWork += ContPingBackgroundWorkerDoWork;
+
+            if (contPingBackgroundWorker.IsBusy == false)
+            {
                 contPingBackgroundWorker.RunWorkerAsync();
             }
 
+            WidgetHasInitialized = true;
+        }
+
+        public void StopCurrentPingRequest()
+        {
+            contPingBackgroundWorker.CancelAsync();
+            Debug.WriteLine("Stopped ping request");
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Will continuously ping the input IP address every 5 seconds,
         /// will stop if a cancellation request is made.
@@ -30,20 +43,22 @@ namespace TimedShutdown
         private void ContPingBackgroundWorkerDoWork(object sender, DoWorkEventArgs e)
         {
 
-            while (IsCancellationRequested == false)
+            while (contPingBackgroundWorker.CancellationPending == false)
             {
-                Thread.Sleep(5000);
-
                 Ping pingSender = new Ping();
                 IPAddress address = _ipAddress;
                 PingReply reply = pingSender.Send(address);
 
                 if (reply.Status == IPStatus.Success)
+                {
                     Debug.WriteLine("Ping Success!");
+                }
                 else
                 {
                     Debug.WriteLine(reply.Status);
                 }
+
+                Thread.Sleep(3000);
             }
         }
     }

TimedShutdown/ViewModels/ShellRootViewModel.cs

@@ -92,12 +92,15 @@ namespace TimedShutdown.ViewModels
 
                 if (value == true)
                 {
-                    pingWidget.IsCancellationRequested = false;
+
                     pingWidget.InitatePingRequest(IPAddress.Parse(RemoteShutdown));
                 }
                 else
                 {
-                    pingWidget.IsCancellationRequested = true;
+                    if (pingWidget.WidgetHasInitialized == true)
+                    {
+                        pingWidget.StopCurrentPingRequest();
+                    }
                 }
             }
         }