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Re: profile_time in win32 euphoria

• Posted by "Elliott S. de Andrade" <quantum_analyst at hotmail.com> Oct 21, 2004
• 602 views

>From: Robert Craig <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
>Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
>To: EUforum at topica.com
>Subject: Re: profile_time in win32 euphoria
>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:39:43 -0700
>
>posted by: Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com>
>
>Elliott S. de Andrade wrote:
> >   Obviously, not a lot of searching.... I found it in a couple minutes
> > (though I /did/ know what to look for already.) Your best bet would be 
>the
> > SetTimer function (
> > <a 
>>href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/timers/timerreference/timerfunctions/settimer.asp">http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/timers/timerreference/timerfunctions/settimer.asp</a>
>
>Thanks.
>I'm not sure SetTimer will do what I want, but I'll look into it.
>I get the impression it's more of an application-level timer.
>In DOS, I have a precise machine-level interrupt that I handle
>at a low level, even to the point of looking at CPU registers.
>SetTimer seems to just place a stream of messages into a queue,
>and I'm not sure if it even does that preemptively or not.
>

  SetTimer has an option to call a function instead of posting messages to a 
window. However, since you might be changing the code entirely, it would be 
best to use the high-resolution timers. They are not always installed 
though, so you may have to fall back to using SetTimer.

>Regards,
>    Rob Craig
>    Rapid Deployment Software
>    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
>

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