Thanks every one for your inputs. 
 Now I am using timer instead of sleep API.

 Pankaj

-----Original Message-----
From: John Walborn [mailto:Jwalborn@m...]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 1:18 AM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] Re: halt for while


Hog? It'll FREEZE your CPU.

-----Original Message-----
From: Marco Straforini [mailto:marco.straforini@c...]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 2:41 PM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] Re: halt for while


The problem with using the Sleep API (and in fact it is discouraged
in any GUI applications) is that it makes your application
irresponsive for 10 seconds, and that can aggravate the user...
If you cannot use a timer (this is what the timer is for) you
can use a smaller amount of sleep (let's say 1 seconds) in a for
loop together with a DoEvents (how I hate it, but c'est la vie)
Do not put a DoEvents in a tight loop! It will hog your cpu.

Marco
 
> Use  the  sleep API

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

HTH
Satya

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