Hi Everyone,

I need help to make a vb program wait for 2 minutes, I have used sleep but i want to use something more effective. Any respond will be most helpful, thank you.


arshad Mehmood

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arshad Mehmood

It depends on what you mean by "wait", and what you mean by more effective.

What behavior do you want your application to do?

You can use a timer in several ways to implement various kinds of waiting behavior.

Woody Z
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I want the program to do nothing for about 2 minute.
The sleep method makes the whole program non responsive. After the 2 minutes the program should carry out as set of tasks then wait 2 minutes and then carry out the tasks again and so on.


arshad Mehmood

well then use a timer control...

HTH

Gonzalo

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Yup. Use the timer. However - the sleep is doing exactly what you describe: "I want the program to do nothing for about 2 minute."
You might want to better define your requirement. Is it that you want the user to be able to do other things while the program is not doing the things that are supposed to happen every two minutes?

Being able to describe the funtionality that you DO want will make it a lot easier for someone to help you.

Woody Z
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Thanks for the help.