timer interval query in VB6.

[snafudude]

howdy,

just wondering, why is there a limit as to how many milliseconds you can have for the interval within a timer in vb6?

I need quite a large interval for my program and cannot get it done because of this limit.
Does anyone know of a way around this or some other way to include a very large interval within an app? I thought about using lots of timers, one after another but that would clog up the code..

If anyone knows of a more efficient way for me to do this, please post.

Any help : greatly appreciated.

snafudude

[Alex]

Yep, I googled VB6 sleep and the first result that came up is this... http://www.buygold.net/v02n11/v02n11.html
Its an open source program that sleeps the program for the amount of seconds you enter (Assuming you know VB6 you should have no trouble with this)...

PS: The zip with the source is posted below.... Hope this helps =)

[STeRoiD]

yeah there is a limit of 60000 milliseconds (1 minute) for the timer control

but its very simple to make a timer that will count alot more. lets say 10 mintues
just declare a variable, lets say integer
set it to 0 at start and set the timer interval to 1 minute
every time the timer counts, increase the variable in 1, and when it gets to 10, do the action and set it to 0 again.