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Re: GetTickCount

#1221
From: Bob Gonder
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:22
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Ted Lyngmo wrote:

>Are you doing something like this?
>
>... {
>    SetTimer( NULL, 0, 15000, TimerProc );
>}
>
>TimerProc(..., dwTime ) {
>     static DWORD dwLastTime=0;
>     SetTimer( NULL, 0, 15000, TimerProc );

Just to let you know, that isn't needed, and can introduce drift.
The Timer normally continues firing until killed.
This code will reset the timer-start-time after an unknown message processing delay.
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