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    <p>I have written a program to print multiple <code>.pdf</code>s with varying file extensions off of an Excel spreadsheet list.<br> The problem is that it takes anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute for the printer to receive the pdf after the line: <code>Application.SendKeys "^p~", False</code> is called.<br> To get by this I used <code>Application.Wait (Now + TimeValue("0:01:03"))</code> to wait for a minute (plus 3 seconds just to be safe) before closing the file. To me there seems like there should be a better way than just causing the program to wait, so I looked around a little and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16073972/doevents-waiting-and-editing">found a question about this lovely gem</a> known as <code>Application.OnTime</code>.</p> <p>I tried a sample of <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/16074309/1393894">one of the answers</a>:</p> <pre><code>Sub test2() ActiveSheet.Cells(1, 1).Value = ActiveSheet.Cells(1, 1).Value + 1 Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:00:5"), "test2" End Sub </code></pre> <p>However when I tried to stop the above code it kept going on an infinite loop and I was unable to stop it until I killed excel using the windows task manager.</p> <p>I would like to be able to add in a little message box or something of the sort so that the user can click in between the wait time.<br> So that while the program is waiting for a minute, the user can either manually click and start the program on the next pdf, or click another button to exit if they need to stop printing early. Something like this:</p> <pre><code>Sub pdfPrinter() '... 'Insert all the other code here '... Application.SendKeys "^p~", False Application.OnTime Now + TimeValue("00:01:02"), "pdfPrinter" continue= MsgBox("Click Retry to print again, or cancel to stop printer.", vbRetryCancel) If continue = vbRetry Then Call pdfPrinter ElseIf continue = vbCancel Then Exit Sub End If End Sub </code></pre>
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    1. COi think you may want to [simulate multi-threading](http://www.excelhero.com/blog/2010/05/multi-threaded-vba.html)
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    2. CO@mehow: Application.OnTime is indeed asyschronous and runs in the different Thread of the main program. Sadly Implementing multi-threading in VBA/VB6 is very unstable and needs direct minipulation of windows API.
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