a delay in visual basic

eoinf

I am programming an IC tester in visual basic for a college project. It works fine except it runs the tests too fast. I was wondering if there is a simple way to pause or delay the program for a second or 2 before performing the next line of code. I'm not great at programming using visual basic so an explanation in the simplest form would be appreciated.

Cheers

eoinf

ressem

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Visual_Basic/Q_20843293.html

Look at sleep and delay routines.

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

Use with

Sleep (3000)  '// Will pause for 3 seconds

Problem is that this will freeze other events, so the "delay" routine, listed at the link above,
1 calls sleep for a fraction of a second,
2 calls doevent to make the interface respond to the user, and
if time spent is less than the specified number of seconds go to 1

eoinf

i keep getting errors

where do i put the first line of code

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

Hobbes

unless VB has changed that radically you shouldn't need the declare statement. VB should have a sleep command built in.

str8_away

Originally posted by eoinf
i keep getting errors

where do i put the first line of code

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

with VB6 (not sure about other versions

if you are putting the declaration in a module then you not need to change.

if you are putting the declaration at the top of you code where you put global variable make the declare private.
Private Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)