I've created a nice stopwatch user control that uses the GetTickCount Function to accurately update some labels with hours, minutes and seconds (it also counts millisecs, but doesn't display them).

The problem is that when you start counting it sits in a loop and you can't do anything else. What I'd ideally want to do is raise a second, minute and hour tick events and also get the time at anypoint, but... without having to be stuck in a loop, so I can do other things at the same time.

I've added a DoEvents in the loop, so I can click buttons and things, but I'd really like to be able to call other subroutines as well.

In short, I'm really trying to create a more veratile version of the Timer control that comes with VB.

Any ideas how I can do this?

thanks

Paul