Intimidat0r

I want my program to stop execution and wait for one second before continuing. Typically in other languages this is accomplished with some variation of the 'sleep' function, like sleep(1000) or whatever.

Unfortunately I am unable to find such a function in VB6. Searching the forums yielded a result in which the topic starter was intructed to use the Sleep function, but this doesn't work for me (function does not exist, ...).

Any help? Thanks

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Infinite Recursion

Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)
 
'Try it out
Sub Command1_Click()
   Call Sleep(1000)
End Sub

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kruptof

why don'y you just lock all the controls on the forum for a given amount of time using the a timer you can then unlock the controls when the time that you have specified has passed.

Eric the Red

Use a different computer language.

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Ooble

Or... here's an idea... you could do exactly what IR said. I'd be the first to agree that VB isn't the best of languages, but this is not a reason I'd give for switching.

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DaWei

I know it sounds silly, but if switching had been an option, he'd have posted in the "What Language Should I Switch To" forum....

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Booooze

I've never thought of kruptof's idea, but it sounds good because if I remember correctly, the sleep function in vb is not very good.

Ooble

The Sleep function is pulled straight from kernel32.dll. In other words, it's the same one that the Win32 API in C++ uses. You're not gonna get much better easily.

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Booooze

o.. Hmm. Must be thinking of something else then.