Q: I read somewhere (and can't find it now???  :-(     ) that there is a
windows API function that literally makes your program SLEEP for a
period of time. If you happen to know of this API call I'd sure
appreciate it. 

Harry Souders hsouders@calweb.com



A: extract from 'Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to the Win32API' 
by Daniel Appleman


Sleep, SleepEx

VB Declaration

Declare Sub Sleep Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long)
Declare Function SleepEx& Lib "kernel32" (ByVal dwMilliseconds As Long, ByVal _
bAlertable As Long)

Description: Suspends operation of a thread for the specified time.

Parameter	Type/Description
dwMilliseconds	Long: 	The time to suspend the thread in milliseconds. 
			The constant INFINITE to put a thread permanently to sleep.
bAlertable	Long: 	SleepEx only. Set to True if an asynchronous I/O transfer has been 
			initiated with a ReadFileEx or WriteFileEx function call, and you 
			want the function to return so that the I/O completion routine specified 	
			by those functions may execute.

Return Value	Long: 	SleepEx only. Zero if the timeout elapses, 
			WAIT_IO_COMPLETION if the function returned because of the completion of 
			an asynchronous I/O operation.

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