Using timers

[DominicTrix]

I'm using SetTimer() to initialize my timer and it all works fine. However, I would like to know a way of halting the flow of code until my timer has finished so that nothing happens till my timer stuff is done i.e. when I kill the timer. Any ideas?

thanks in advance

dom

[adrianxw]

Don't understand.

When you call SetTimer() you are requesting Windows to send you a WM_TIMER message when the timer expires, if you don't want to do anything until that happens, when you set the timer, set a flag, and ignore all messages until the WM_TIMER message comes in, when you can reset the flag.

[DominicTrix]

Sorry, I've just figured it out. I didn't quite get the whole timer concept really!

I basically wanted to animate cards being dealt until they were all dealt and I didn't want anything happening in the mean time.

I've now used GetTickCount in a while() loop and it seems to working.

Thanks anyway!

Dom