>>I have this app that communicates with the COM ports using a DLL. I need to send a request to the DLL and wait about 100 miliseconds before I loop id the wrong return value is received. To achieve this I have a WAIT WINDOW"" TIMEOUT .1
>>This procedure is called approx every 200 mili seconds with a timer.
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>>DO WHILE err_code #0
>> err_code = dll_call(parm1,parm2...)
>> WAIT WINDOW '' TIMEOUT .1
>>ENDDO
>>
>>...rest of procedure.
>>
>>The problem is that the wait window firing as fast as it is my keystrokes to the main application as well as mouse clicks are being "EATEN" by the Wait Window.
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>>IS THERE ANY OTHER WAY TO "PAUSE" CODE EXECUTION IN A PROGRAM FOR A SPECIFIED TIME BUT WITHOUT A FUNCTION THAT EATS KEYSTROKES??
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>>THANKS
>>
>>BERNARD
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>Have you tried the ON COMM event? Works great with the MSCOMM32.OCX. This way your app wakes up when data comes across the commport.

Cannot use mscomm here as the hardware I am talking to needs to be polled before giving up data.It is not data that flows into the buffer without polling!