VB headache

[UAF_Lt_Brenton]

I need help with a program I'm building.  Any ideas how to get VB to pause for x milliseconds?

Private Sub Begin_click()
Voice.Speak "Test 1"
Voice.Speak "Test 2"
' Pause required here
Voice.Speak "Test 3"
End Sub

Any suggestions would be appreciated

[David Fox]

Well, Excel's VB has a function: Timer() that counts the number of seconds since midnight, resolved to 100th's of a
second. If you set a variable equal to Timer() and then do a loop while Timer()<variable+value, where value=desired
delay in seconds, then this should more or less do what you want, although good only to 100th's of a second, rather
than milliseconds.

Alternatively, you could just make the computer count for a while:

For i= 1 to n
Next i

where n is some number, determined experimentally, that produces the desired delay.

[DocHoliday]

I don't know about VB, but in VBA (Basic for Office) the command would be Wait it's syntax is:

expression.Wait(Time)

Time given in seconds as duration.

Must be something similar in full VB. For loop or any kind of other loop works too. I assume you're inserting the delay
to make sure the previous sound is finished, before the new one starts, so I guess you could use a while loop that
would somehow check if the speaker is free or something like that. I'm pretty sure it can be done, although I don't
know how to offhand. Since you appear to be using some kind of speech synthesis, I think it's safe to assume there
are routines for precisely this purpose as part of the the speech synthesizer..

Cheers,

[tony]

d = 5
k = Timer
e = Timer + d
While Timer < e
    DoEvents
Wend

the 5 in the 1st line represents 5 seconds.  Change it to whatever you want, including fractions of a second.
the DoEvents statement prevents your computer from acting like it's locked up while the delay loop is running.

This method is better than the

for i=1 to n
next i

method, because that method will yield different delay results on different computers depending on processor speed
and other things.