Re: Sleep( ) differences in Win98 and WinXP?

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:21

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"Nicholas Gessler" <gessler@ucla.edu> wrote in message
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> So I need a way to adjust these intervals smoothly in
> the range of 1-10 ms.  I'm guessing that the Timer Component
> cannot slice time that precisely.

You would be correct.  TTimer is very inaccurate.  You should have a look at
possibly using either a Multimedia Timer (timeSetEvent()) or a Performance
Counter (QueryPerformanceCounter() and QueryPerformanceFrequency())).


Gambit

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