Sleep in VB Options

[MaD_cOw]

I know this is an extremely n00bish Question,

but how would I use the sleep command in VB?

[amir]

vb6
if you are on vb.net, use System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10000) for a 10 sec sleep.

it is odd i couldn't find the function documentations for vb6 on msdn but u should always first try msdn.

[MaD_cOw]

I know I looked everywhere for this, and all the examples didn't work.

Thanks for the help.

[amir]

unless u r writing a console application, sleep usually doesn't do what u need. it freezes the main Thread which is ur UI Thread and UI freezing is not desirable.

if i want to delay some event i use a Timer in .Net (or start a new Thread) there should be such thing in VB6 too.

a code fragment will help.

somewhere i read that u need to declare an entry point to Sleep defintion in kernel32.dll. sounds like Sleep is not a vb function. (add at the top of ur page). actually u can name it whatever u want.

CODE

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

[MaD_cOw]

This code worked fine, because it was in a duckhunt game, and I wanted the duck to delay for 300 miliseconds but nothing else had to work while it was delayed,

Thanks again.