Re: Multimedia Timer

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 00:42 +0200, Norbert Bauer wrote:
> Hello Fernando,
> 
> thanks for your help.
> >> which is the precision you need?
> About one millisecond would be great and absolutely satisfying.
> 
> >> You can use Sleep function included from Windows.h
> A thread + the Sleep function really works that exact?
> 
> >> You can also use timers from other
> >> libraries like allegro.
> I don't know allegro. I'll search it and find out...

if you truly need high resolution timing for a periodic (or
semi-periodic) process, then you should *not* integrate this into your
main GUI event loop. there is no upper bound on how long GUI event
handling code could delay handling the timer.

if it matters that much, you should use a separate thread to deal with
the high resolution timer.