"J. Landman Gay" wrote: > > On 8/20/02 5:36 PM, Karl Becker wrote: > > Do I remember correctly that HyperCard had some sort of bug that related > > to ticks being incorrectly reported after using them a long time? I'm > > just having a foggy clue of this, I don't know if MetaCard inherited > > this problem. > > The problem isn't with HyperCard, which just asks the OS for the > information. The problem is that some background processes that can > cause the tick count to be thrown off, so relying on ticks for precise > timing accuracy isn't a good idea. Ticks are accurate enough for general > polling though, where small time deviations aren't important. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
Hi, Just alike Jacque said, no problems knowed with ticks in HC 2.35 and over. Perhaps could you try to avoid thoeses probables WIN32-based problems by using the "on idle" handler with something like : > on idle > if char -2 to -1 of the secs is "00" or char -2 to -1 of the secs is "30" then > # copy there your code > end if > end idle -- Regards, Pierre Sahores WEB & VPN applications & databases servers Inspection acad�mique de Seine-Saint-Denis Qualifier & produire l'avantage comp�titif _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
