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Pause, Timeout, or Sleep Function

Asked by Guilt in Visual Basic Programming

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I am having a problem.

As you know the "Timer" function gets the milliseconds from 12 midnight.

During a timeout or pause function it gets the current time, and loops until your time is a certain ammount  of time greater than the time which was first utilized.

If the computers clock rolls over as the pause is being initalized, it will cause the number to be less than the starting value, and the loop won't end for a 24 hour period, if it even ends.

The second problem is, the sleep function API, freezes the program, not allowing the program to do other procedures as the sleep is working. This can get annoying, and aggrivate you quite fast.

I am wondering if there is a way to async the sleep timer, so that it allows other functions to be performed, however does not perform functions from a certain procedure until the sleep is over, or if anyone has ever had a timeout function do the same thing as mine, and created a fix.

This question is not really hard, however, I have a lot of available question points, and rarely use the service.

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Keywords: Pause, Timeout, or Sleep Function
Title
1 Sleep API
2 Does a 'paus' command exists?
3 Sleep API function
4 Using Sleep API
5 prevent system going to sleep
6 Problem with Sleep() function..
 
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