Ahhh first time i have ever asked for help so i will try. anyways i need help im working on a program however im not great with timers at all so if one of you advanced VB6 programmers will be so kind to give me an ideal how i would go about delaying a timer or stopping it to hold until it got text again? working on a auto responder for paltalk however i want to either pause the timer till the next text is sent or stop the timer till the next text is sent. Anyone with a useful ideal that will get the job done i'll put in a credit part for you in the program. meantime i guess if there is no one to help i'll just trying to figure it out on my own some how.