VB6 Queue System

[rabbit]

I wrote this for my new bot, and I find that it works very well.  It's influenced by Adron's RequiredDelay(), but with that I got rediculous delay times (like 3 days) for 4 byte messages.  Anyways, here it is:

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Public Function GetDelay(strMessage As String) As Long
    Static LastTick As Long
    Const DelayPerByte As Long = 10
    Dim Tick As Long
    Dim Bytes As Long
    Dim Delay As Long
   
    Bytes = Len(strMessage) + 1
    Tick = GetTickCount()
    If LastTick = 0 Then LastTick = Tick 'the first time the function is called it's 0
    Delay = LastTick - Tick
   
    While Delay < 0
        Delay = Delay + (Bytes * DelayPerByte) * 200
    Wend
   
    Delay = Delay + 1  'sometimes it's 0, and that disables timers
   
    LastTick = Tick
    GetDelay = Delay
End Function

[Joe]

If you're really paraniod, you should set Delay = IIf(Delay = 0, 1, Delay).

[Sidoh]

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If you're really paraniod, you should set Delay = IIf(Delay = 0, 1, Delay).

Uh, this topic is almost a month old. :\