timer trvia

[vb1992]

What is the fast timer you can set?
(seems like setting it to 1second is the quickest updates?)



Just say you wanted a half a second
timer.Initialize("timer",??)

and this would be 1 second correct?
timer.Initialize("timer",1)
or is this 1/1000th of a second


thanks in advance

edit: see timer test

 

[NJDude]

The timer is set in milliseconds

timer.Initialize("timer", 1000) 'This is one second

timer.Initialize("timer", 500) 'This is HALF a second

 

[vb1992]

The timer value is a long
so the fastest setting would be set to 1 ?

timer1.Initialize("timer1,1)

 

[stevel05]

Yes the fastest setting would be 1 as in 1 millisecond as NJDude stated. The timer does not guarantee to call the subroutine on the exact time you specify, it will do it when it's ready but not before the time you specify.

As other code and processes are running, setting too small a value will have no effect on, and may even slow down, the timing between calls.

I'm not sure how delayed calls are managed, but it would not be a good idea to have too many missed, it could screw up your program logic for a start.

 

[vb1992]

Ok thanks everyone.