Timers???

[MrNiceBerG]

Well I've read several articles about timers and I still don't quite get how to use them. What I'm trying to do is hide(<-I can do this part) a dialog box for X minutes(<-I can't do this part). I don't understand what I need to do to get it to work. Thank you to any who helps and to those who have helped.

[sudeesh]

while using the timers after the particular time (ie in millisecends specifed in the triggering function ) Timer Function will be triggered. In the OnInitDialog() function add the following , OnInitDialog() { CDialog::OnInitDialog(); ......... SetTimer(1000,5000,NULL); ShowWindow(SW_HIDE); return TRUE; } Implement the WM_TIMER using classWizard and add the following code OnTimer(...) { ShowWindow(SW_SHOW); KillTimer(1000); // 1000 is the Timer ID given in the SetTimer function } Here the OnTimer will be called after 5 seconds.