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Hi,

I just stard using MASM32 and have beem experimenting. One of the things that I will want to do is to have my process sleep for some time and then continue.

I used this simple program from NOPerators tutorial to experiment:

.386
.model flat, stdcall
option casemap :none

include \MASM32\INCLUDE\windows.inc
include \MASM32\INCLUDE\masm32.inc
include \MASM32\INCLUDE\gdi32.inc
include \MASM32\INCLUDE\user32.inc
include \MASM32\INCLUDE\kernel32.inc

includelib \MASM32\LIB\masm32.lib
includelib \MASM32\LIB\gdi32.lib
includelib \MASM32\LIB\user32.lib
includelib \MASM32\LIB\kernel32.lib

.data
ourmessage db "This is a message!",0
ourtitle db "This is the title of our message box!",0

.code
start:
invoke Sleep,60
invoke MessageBox,0,ADDR ourmessage,ADDR ourtitle,MB_OK
invoke ExitProcess,0
end start

As I understand it the process should sleep for 60 seconds before displaying the Message Box. However no matter how many seconds I specify the Box appears "instantaneously".

Can anyone advise in what I am doing wrong?

Thanks, Firmo

Hi Jimmy,

Thanks for the reply. It worked, of course.

I get frustrated that I cant find a good reference for the MASM32 commands and an explanation on what functions there are in each of the main libraries, sintax and semantics.

Could you point me to a reference on these?

Thanks, Firmo

Thanks Gunner.

Will do.

Best, Firmo

Got it.

Thanks, Firmo