Re: Question about windows timer
I don't think you remember correctly. If you have a 50 ms timer and it
takes you 100 ms to do something, you will have two WM_TIMERS to deal with
next time the thread is idle.
If you don't want multiple WM_TIMER messages of the same timer, then I would
kill the timer and restart it again.
Also keep in mind that WM_TIMER is a low resolution timer, there is no
garantee that it will hit at 50ms everytime.
AliR.
"Dan" <dan@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Hi,
I have a timer that is setup to generate 20 WM_TIMER messages a second.
Occasionally, timer handler takes longer than 50ms to execute. This might
happen every 10 or more seconds. In rare cases the timer handler might
take as long as 1/2 second to execute. From what I remember, Windows is
not going to put a new WM_TIMER message in the queue if another messages
is already there (i.e. for the same timer).
What would be the proper way to handle the situation. Is it better for me
to stop the timer on the entry to the handler if I expect a lengthy
execution (I could actually detect it) and then restart the timer on exit?
Does it really matter?
Thanks,
Dan.
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