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Miky - 22 May 2008 23:59 GMT

Hi All,

How do I suspend the TIMER that I have launched with SetTimer?

Thanks

Miky

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Chris Tacke, eMVP - 23 May 2008 00:06 GMT

By calling KillTimer(). Reading the docs is useful at times like these:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms644906.aspx

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Brian Burgess - 14 Jul 2008 08:56 GMT

This doesn't suspend .. it destroys. Any suggestions relating to the
question asked?

Thx

-B

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Christopher Fairbairn [MVP] - 14 Jul 2008 10:49 GMT

Hi,

> This doesn't suspend .. it destroys. Any suggestions relating to the
> question asked?

There is no suspend functionality with this kind of timer. When you want to
pause a timer you can call KillTimer as suggested by Chris Tacke. When you
then want to "resume" the timer simply call SetTimer again to start it up
again.

Is this what you wanted?

If you have a 20 second timer and want to "pause" and resume it from where
it left off (i.e. if paused after 5 seconds when it is resumed it will time
15 seconds) there are a number of ways to do this. When you call KillTimer
to suspend the timer you could call GetTickCount() and compare the returned
value to a value you recorded when you called SetTimer (this determines how
long the timer has been running and hence the length of time you should
subtract from your original timeframe).

Hope this helps,
Christopher Fairbairn

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