Re: Newbie to VB: to what degree is VB event driven [follow up questions]

thanks all for your responses.

I understand that the system is not fully dormant while it is waiting
for user input, that's why I wrote "do nothing" in quotes. The C++
example I was talking about was in fact a standalone app in a
nonwindowed environment. The "menu" is just a listing of options
displayed in a command window. I did not mention this because I only
used it as an explanation on what had lead to my question.

But I wanted to ask a couple follow up questions. These are strictly
speaking not VB questions so apologies for that:
A. is it so that (regardless of programming language) the Windows
environment is what provides a way to eliminate loops to wait for user
input?
B. in what kind of situations would a loop be required for waiting for
user input?

thanks again

P.S. as you may also notice, some of my programming experience is from
ancient systems:-)

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