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Simeon Cran wrote in a message to All: SC> Is there a way to make sure a timer message will arrive very SC> close to the time it is supposed to? How close? SC> I know that other processes may prevent the WM_TIMER message SC> from arriving exactly at the interval expected, but for my SC> purposes I'd like to improve this situation. SC> Is there a way of setting the timer to a higher priority, or SC> something like that? WM_TIMER messages are intended to be handled at low priority, really just "wake up" messages. If you need better response, your best bet is probably to create an additional thread that runs at high priority and blocks on an event semaphore set up with DosStartTimer(). What are you trying to do? -- Mike ---* Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 V.34/V.FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) SEEN-BY: 105/42 620/243 711/401 409 410 413 430 807 808 809 934 955 712/407 SEEN-BY: 712/515 628 704 713/888 800/1 7877/2809 @PATH: 323/107 150 3615/50 396/1 270/101 105/103 42 712/515 711/808 809 934 |
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