Wait???

[VBGangsta]

Hi in a timer tick event a web broswer navigates to a web page but i want it to wait about 2 seconds so the page can load then continue with the code. I need to keep this all in one evrnt. Any ideas? Heres the code:

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
        web1.Navigate("http://www.22klmqu56.com/attacklist.php?c=1&uname=&page=" & page - 1 & "&jpage=" & page & "")
'''''''***WAIT 2 SECONDS HERE***''''''''''
        Dim ips As IPersistStreamInit
        Dim iptr As IntPtr
        Dim strm As UCOMIStream
        ips = DirectCast(web1.Document, IPersistStreamInit)
        iptr = Marshal.AllocHGlobal(2048)
        CreateStreamOnHGlobal(iptr, True, strm)
        ips.Save(strm, False)
        GetHGlobalFromStream(strm, iptr)
        Dim pattern As String = "(?<=\""\>)\w+(?=\<\/a\>\<\/TD\>\<TD\>)"
        Dim reg As New System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(pattern)
        Dim mcol As System.Text.regularexpressions.MatchCollection = reg.Matches(Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi(iptr))
        For Each m As System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match In mcol
            ListBox1.Items.Add(m.Value)
        Next
        Timer1.Enabled = False
    End Sub

[Carnifex]

Easiest way is probably to have a private boolean which checks if it is the first or second tick.

e.g a small slice of code. (Assume bolHadFirstTick is initialized to
false)

If bolHadFirstTick = True Then
            'Do stuff
Else
   'Set the timers interval to 2 seconds
   Timer1.Interval = 2000
    'Change the flag
    bolHadFirstTick = True
End If

Where "Do Stuff" is your code after wait 2 seconds here.

The timer will tick the first time, set it's interval to two seconds and flag the boolean to say it's had it's first tick. Then the clock will keep ticking until it hits the interval again, this time bolHadFirstTick will be true and the rest of your code can execute.

[VBGangsta]

ok thanks for you reply, what is bolHadFirstTick? Iys gets underlined.

[VBGangsta]

opps never mind, i forgot to set it as a boolean. Ecellent it works great!!

[VBCrazyCoder]

You could also probably do a sleep() but if you have it working, then cool!