help on pause/sleep/etc.

[MartijnR]

Hi,

is there a way to tell access to do REALLY nothing, like a sleep command?

on a form, I wanted to make a slideshow button which would skip to the next record after some seconds. but in those seconds i need to display 2 graphs and there is the problem i'm facing.

using something like a loop makes access really busy (as a process) and graphs use a different process (graph.exe) and that process doesn't get any processingtime...

anyone?

 

[Laurentech]

Use your form's On Timer event to change to the next slide.

Larry

 

[MartijnR]

Thx Larry, I will try your suggestion.

It's just that I'm a bit scared of 'on timer'.
Some time ago I was informed by some hightech guy (building his own hardware and software microchippies and stuff) that there were issues with on timer. Or maybe I'm mistaken and the 'strange stuff' only applies to a certain activeX component using 'on timer'.

But to not shoot is to certainly miss. Offcourse, making copies before trying things never hurts

Are there other known ways to avoid CPU meltdown?

 

[ghudson]

You have to be careful with a timer so that it is not always on for it could affect the users system resources but most of todays PCs have the hardware to handle it.