Fw: application slowing down

[Pierre Sahores]

"J. Landman Gay" wrote:
> 
> On 8/20/02 5:36 PM, Karl Becker wrote:
> > Do I remember correctly that HyperCard had some sort of bug that related
> > to ticks being incorrectly reported after using them a long time?  I'm
> > just having a foggy clue of this, I don't know if MetaCard inherited
> > this problem.
> 
> The problem isn't with HyperCard, which just asks the OS for the
> information. The problem is that some background processes that can
> cause the tick count to be thrown off, so relying on ticks for precise
> timing accuracy isn't a good idea. Ticks are accurate enough for general
> polling though, where small time deviations aren't important.
> 
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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Hi,

Just alike Jacque said, no problems knowed with ticks in HC 2.35 and
over. Perhaps could you try to avoid thoeses probables WIN32-based
problems by using the "on idle" handler with something like :

> on idle
> if char -2 to -1 of the secs is "00" or char -2 to -1 of the secs is "30" then
> # copy there your code
> end if
> end idle

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Regards, Pierre Sahores

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