Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Visual Basic: How to Sleep or Pause a Visual Basic Program Execution for Time Period

Another one of those quick tips that I always forget. In order to use a Sleep function in Visual Basic, include the following library declaration in any module or form:

Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)

Lets say you need to pause a programs execution by 5 seconds. You would call the function like so:

Sleep(5000)
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6 comments:

  1. Unknown5:33 PM

    Thank you good sir.

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  2. Unknown5:20 AM

    thank youuuuuuuuuuu

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  3. Anonymous10:41 AM

    Thanks :)

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  4. Anonymous12:07 PM

    Thank you!

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  5. Anonymous10:54 AM

    Thank you, i was looking for this :-)

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  6. Code Postal5:11 PM

    Thanks a lot.
    Simple and efficient !

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