[DUG]Timers

[Jeremy North]

Ah I see. I missed that.

cheers,
Jeremy

On 3/7/06, Matthew Comb <matt at ferndigital.com> wrote:
> Jeremy, I think you might have missed some of the original thread.
>
> I was referring to Carlos ThreadedTimer.
>
> Critical code as follows.
>
>    if WaitForSingleObject(FStop, FInterval) = WAIT_TIMEOUT then
>      Synchronize(FOwner.DoTimer);
>
> the waitfor FInterval will stop for what is perceived the resolution, but
> the dotimer time will be added to that.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt.
>
> > Matthew,
> >
> > Drop a TTimer on a form and set the interval to 10000. (10secs)
> > Drop a Memo on the form
> > In the OnTimer event add the following code:
> >
> >   Memo1.Lines.Add('Enter: ' + FormatDateTime('hh:nn:ss', now));
> >   sleep(5000);
> >   Memo1.Lines.Add('Leave: ' + FormatDateTime('hh:nn:ss', now));
> >
> >>From what you are saying you believe the difference between the Enter
> > entries in the Memo would be 15 seconds correct?
> >
> > That is not what I observe.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Jeremy
> >
> > On 3/7/06, Matthew Comb <matt at ferndigital.com> wrote:
> >> actually the timer resolution was 30 seconds, and execute was 20
> >> seconds,
> >> you got it the wrong way around.
> >>
> >> If you want to say that the execute took 2 seconds instead of 20 seconds
> >> then thats fine. My point is still the same. The resolution on the timer
> >> becomes 32 seconds instead of 30 seconds.
> >>
> >> Matt.
> >>
> >> >> In johns case if his code executed took 20 seconds for example, and
> >> the
> >> >> resolution on the timer is 30 seconds, then the combined resolution
> >> >> would
> >> >> be 50 seconds.
> >> >
> >> > What is the point of firing a timer every 20 seconds that would
> >> > require 30 seconds to run the code it fired?
> >> >
> >> > That scenario doesn't make sense to me.
> >> >
> >> > cheers,
> >> > Jeremy
> >> >
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