Re: Is delphi a good introduction to programming?

On Sat, 14 May 2005 13:18:46 +1200, Nicholas Sherlock
<n_sherlock@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>J French wrote:
>> I wonder whether there is a way of getting a higher resolution message
>> pump
>
>You could probably use multimedia timers. No messages are sent, but you
>could easily write a callback which sets a "Continue" flag for your
>loop. From the windows SDK:
>
>"About Multimedia Timers
>Multimedia timer services allow applications to schedule timer events
>with the greatest resolution (or accuracy) possible for the hardware
>platform. These multimedia timer services allow you to schedule timer
>events at a higher resolution than other timer services.

>These timer services are useful for applications that demand
>high-resolution timing. For example, a MIDI sequencer requires a
>high-resolution timer because it must maintain the pace of MIDI events
>within a resolution of 1 millisecond.

>Applications that do not use high-resolution timing should use the
>SetTimer function instead of multimedia timer services. The timer
>services provided by SetTimer post WM_TIMER messages to a message queue,
>while the multimedia timer services call a callback function.
>Applications that want a waitable timer should use the
>CreateWaitableTimer function. "

Ain't the SDK grand

<quote>
The timer services provided by SetTimer post WM_TIMER messages to a
message queue,
</quote>

Er... no, SetTimer gives you both options
- no HWND and give a lpTimerFunc then it uses Callback

Comical how misleading the documentation can be.

I think I remember that the multimedia timer hops in on a different
thread

An MSDN search on timeSetEvent is interesting

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