Newbie - Timers and Send

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Mon Dec 8 14:09:03 EST 2003


On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 12:03 PM, Stephen King wrote:

> The way I got around it was to 'Send' more often than I needed (every 
> 10
> mSec in my case), then check the elapsed time between 'Send's against 
> the
> system clock to update my timer - Using 'Send' a bit like an 
> interrupt. This
> method worked fine, accurate to 0.01 seconds with no noticable 
> overhead on
> processing.

I agree.  Always go to the clock for accurate timing.  An alternative 
to the above procedure would be to adjust the delay specified in the 
send to target the end of the next period.

Dar Scott



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