Is there something less Processor intensive then DoEvents?

I have a program that needs to wait for a web page to load completely. I do this by setting a global boolean variable when the document = DocumentComplete.

VB Code:

Public Function GotoWebPage(vWebPage as string) as boolean
 
wb.Navigate = vWebPage
wpReadyFlag = False
 
Do While wpReadyFlag = False
    DoEvents
Loop
 
End Function
 
Private Sub wb_DocumentComplete(ByVal pDisp As Object, URL As Variant)
    If wb.ReadyState = READYSTATE_COMPLETE Then
        wpReadyFlag = True
    End If
End Sub

When this runs (and it runs many many times) the processor spikes to 100% for the duration of the page load. Is there something else I can do instead of "DoEvents"?

Call the sleep api instead.

Here:

VB Code:

''Put the app to sleep for a bit...
'http://www.vbexplorer.com/VBExplorer/time.asp
Public Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)
 
'In your loop
Do While wpReadyFlag = False
Sleep 1000 '1 second
Loop

Just put your code in the DownloadComplete event

I'd use the Sleep API, but I'd do it like this:

Code:

---

Do While wpReadyFlag = False
    DoEvents ' you still want to check those events :)
    Sleep 10 ' better responce time but still saves the CPU
Loop

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I've tried them all.. If I put my code in the document_complete sub it get's WAY out of hand trying to figure out what page I'm on. It sort of works but there is a lot more going on then I can put here.. SleepEX puts my whole application to bed when there are many other parts of the application running different items and other browser windows.

Thanks for the suggestions tho :) I do appreciate it, and I should have mentioned that I've tried those before.. my bad.

Any othere ideas?

You could post your project for us to look at.

It sounds like you have another loop somewhere

Madjon, unfortunately I've put as much code here as I could about the problem and I can't put the big picture up for there are some trade sercrets (I'm not being funny ;) ) that I don't need to get fired over... I will try to strip all the business stuff out and put up the basics... Thanks :)

Longwolf - The only loops running at the time are waiting for the web page with the doEvents. When I read this I went back and checked... good idea tho.. :)

Thanks :D
CrazyVBr