VB6 - Timers

Idgeitman

Hey all, small question

Im working with winsock, and Need a timer to send data every 20 seconds, anyone got any ideas how i can make a timer that sends every 20 seconds?


Thank you kindly,

~ Idgeitman

Mutant_Fruit

google search for "vb6 timer control" and you should get some useful hits...

theone

have it in a loop and have a thread.sleep(20000) to act as your 20 seconds so it waits 20 seconds before sending the command again.

djmarkus

Just use the timer control! thatd be the easiest IMO

dowlinj

Timer Control is what you require. You simply set the interval property of the control to how often you want the particular event to occur. When the interval passes, the timer control triggers the event procedure that you have set up to handle the timer event. It's no more complicated than that.

theone

easier putting a thread.sleep() in imo

dowlinj

I may be wrong here, but I'm not sure if there's such a thing as threads in vb 6. I know there's a win32 api called SLEEP which can be used to the same effect though. I've always used the timer control for this purpose. Saves messing with the win32 api functions.

The Corinthian

theone wrote:

easier putting a thread.sleep() in imo

And when someone asks the same question for VB.Net and not VB6 then you'll actually be right.

dowlinj wrote:

I may be wrong here, but I'm not sure if there's such a thing as threads in vb 6.

Implementing threads in VB5 or 6 is a bitch. Which makes any app written in either and that uses Winsock pretty limited.

Sam Vimes

easiest way. just add a timer control and set the interval in milliseconds.

Idgeitman

hey thanks for all the help


~ Idgeitman