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How to pause/sleep the application for the given number of milliseconds

Posted on January 5, 2009

The following vb6 code will help to pause the application for given number of milliseconds. The code uses Sleep API.

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'System & API - How to pause/sleep the application for the given number of milliseconds
Option Explicit
 
Public Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)
 
Public Sub Pause(ByVal seconds As Single)
    Call Sleep(Int(seconds * 1000#))
End Sub

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  1. steven
    February 12th, 2009 - 16:54

    Is there anyway you could tell a novice how to implement this? I am hoping to put it into an access form.

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