Well VBScript is single threaded so "waiting" is hard to do.  Typically a=
 language will spawn a new thread to do the "waiting" with, but VBScript=
 can't do this.  In VB (ie not Script) there is the timer control that you=
 can use, but I do not know of such a thing in VBScript.

However, you can do somthing like this:

<script language=3D"VBScript">

private sub command_click
	
dim complete

complete =3D DateAdd("s", 5, Now)
msgbox "starting at: " & Now & vbcrlf & "will complete at: " & restartat

while Now <=3D complete
	'nothing
wend

msgbox "completed"

	
end sub


</script>

<form id=3Dform1 name=3Dform1>
<input value=3Dclick type=3Dbutton name=3Dcommand=
 onclick=3D"command_click">
</form>

But this is not really good to do; any more than a few seconds and IE balks=
 (it displays a message that a script is causing it to run slowly and asks=
 if you would like to abort.)  The while loop just continually checks the=
 time and compares it to the "complete" value.  Inside the loop nothing=
 happens so the loop executes an unimaginable amount of times.... if you=
 could give the loop something to do then this script might be ok.  For=
 example if you had a bunch of other code that you wanted to execute inside=
 the loop then this might work.  

It's not perfect, but...


hth,
phil.

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