Newbie - Timers and Send

[Stephen King]

Paul,

As already suggested, 'Send' is the best way, but beware that it is not in
itself very accurate (typically around 95% I've found). If you need accurate
timing, then you may need to enhance it a little.

I have an app which is used for swim coaching, accuracy required to 0.02
seconds. Send is not accurate enough for this.

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.

Hope this helps,
Cheers
Steve

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> how can I keep a timer running and still allow the application to do other
things?
>
> my timer code is just -
>
> put the seconds into Start
>
> repeat forever
>
> wait for 1 sec
>
> put (the seconds - value(Start)) into field "Timer"
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> end repeat
>
> of course the 'repeat forever'  means nothing else can happen meantime
>
> thanks for any insights