HEELPBOOK - 2 ALTERNATIVES ON HOW TO SET A DELAY (VBSCRIPT) #################

You could use 2 methods to set a deley in code, using VBScript: the "ping" or "sleep" approach.


###### PING Approach

Sub subSleep(strSeconds) ' subSleep(2)

Dim objShell

Dim strCmd

set objShell = CreateObject("wscript.Shell")

'objShell.Run cmdline,1,False

strCmd = "%COMSPEC% /c ping -n " & strSeconds & " 127.0.0.1>nul"

objShell.Run strCmd,0,1

End Sub



###### SLEEP Approach

Function MySleep(milliseconds)

set WScriptShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

WScriptShell.Run "Sleep -m " & milliseconds, 0, true

End Function




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Article Month: January
Article Date: 29/01/2013
Permalink: http://heelpbook.altervista.org/2013/2-alternatives-on-how-to-set-a-delay-vbscript/
Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1729075/how-to-set-delay-in-vbscript
Language: English

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