Exploring DoEvents [B](Can this be use to temporarily pause a procedure?[/B]

[flint]

Would anyone care to elaborate on the usage of Doevents? As I understand it now, Do Events can be executed in a procedure. In a specific procedure that I would like to pause, I want some variables to be user defined before it continues to execute the remaining code in the procedure.

Are there any other pausing methodologies for delaying the execution of specific code (usually at the end of a procedure)?

Flint Puckett, M.B.A
Johnson & Johnson
VB 6.0 Enterprise Edition SP4

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DoEvents will process the current events before it and when they are done, go to the next processes that will occur.

Depending on how long this is going to take, it may pause for a millisecond or more. But it doesn't always. If you want a delay, you can use the Sleep api function.

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

Usage

Call Sleep(1000) 'delay 1 second

[flint]

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Flint