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From: kipnis@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Kipnis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: timer for windows
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Date: 11 Jan 90 19:16:56 GMT
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Reply-To: kipnis@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Gary Kipnis)
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Hi, a while back someone suggested using the following method to implement
a timer in windows:

void FAR PASCAL Sleep(hWnd, wMilliSeconds)
HWND hWnd;
WORD wMilliSeconds;
{
    MSG Msg;

    SetTimer(hWnd, TIMER_ID, wMilliSeconds, NULL);
    GetMessage(&Msg, hWnd, WM_TIMER, WM_TIMER);
    KillTimer(hWnd, TIMER_ID);
    return;
}

For some reason after making a call to this function several time the 
system hangs.  If I eliminate this function from the code then everything
works fine (without a delay though).

Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong with the above method or 
suggest a different approach.

Thank you,

gary