Re: Sleep time resolution

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From: Michel Leunen
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:41

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Detlef wrote:

> a ttime has two problems:
> - it depends on the message system, it is not independent what happens on
> the GUI ( that is the reason for the thread)
> - the maximum resolution is 1/60 second

Try using a multimedia timer. You can have a resolution of about 1ms 
with such a timer.
I've a component on my site which encapsulates the multimedia timer:
http://www.leunen.com/download/mmtimer.zip

Michel
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