how to add a delay in program

[mr2003]

Hi, I would like to know how to add a delay of say 1sec in my MDI program !!! Ehsan Behboudi

[Neville Franks]

Sleep() - but then people may think you program is buggy or broken.:( Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows. Free Trial at www.getsoft.com

[Marissa182]

maybe you want to use SetTimer SetTimer(TIMER_ID, time); Then just set up a message handler to check for TIMER_ID and do what you want in that message i think there are a few samples somewhere on this site :P

[parths]

1. Sleep, but it prevents the program from responding to any other event during the Sleep interval. 2. CreateEvent to create a dummy event, and then WaitForSingleObject "It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something." -Ornette Coleman

[HPSI]

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// NAME
// Delay -- pause for N milliseconds
//
// SYNOPSIS
// void Delay(DWORD dwMsecs, BOOL bBlocking)
//
// DESCRIPTION
// Delay pauses for the number of milliseconds specified by dwMsecs.
// If bBlocking is FALSE, messages in the message queue will
// be processed. If bBlocking is TRUE, the message queue will
// not be processed until the delay period is expired.
//
// RETURN VALUE
// None.
//
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
void Delay(DWORD dwMsecs, BOOL bBlocking)
{
DWORD dwStrtmsecs, dwCurmsecs;

dwStrtmsecs = dwCurmsecs = ::GetTickCount();

do 
{
    if (!bBlocking)
    {
        MSG msg;
        if (::PeekMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM\_REMOVE)) 
        {
            ::TranslateMessage(&msg);
            ::DispatchMessage(&msg);
        }
    }

    dwCurmsecs = ::GetTickCount();

    // check for timer overflow condition
    if (dwCurmsecs < dwStrtmsecs)
        dwStrtmsecs = dwCurmsecs;

} while ((dwCurmsecs < (dwMsecs + dwStrtmsecs)));

}

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[l a u r e n]

im assuming this is for startup reasons? what i do is after initialising all i need to simply send urself a message that "starts" the main app running hope i got the right angle here :)

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