GetTickCount question?

[Sidro]

Hi,
Im making a text scroller using this function, GetTickCount from the windows "Kernel32" DLL file.
The text scroller loooks like a type writer affect; printing each charactor and delay a 3 second before printing another charactor. The problem im having is breaking out.When the GetTickCount is in affect, It takes priority over my apps. I cant break out at all. I would have to wait until it finishes before executing another command. I cant have control over it. Is there a better way to do a delay that I can break out if I wanted to.
Thanks.

 

[johnwm]

The Timer control is probably the easiest way of doing this. Just put a Timer control on the form with Enabled = True and Interval set to 3000 ( = 3 secs)

Then do your stuff in the Timer event:

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
Text1.text = .... ' whatever you want here
End Sub

This routine runs every 3 secs until you set Timer enabled to False


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