Since you've seen it happen with POSER, have you tried the Profile version?
I'd let the app run until I saw the freeze and then check the profile dump
for the culprit.
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From: Red Mercury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2000 11:22 AM
Subject: 5 second mystery pause
>Atom Smash (AS) occasionally exhibits 4 to 5 second halt in the action. I
am
>trying to figure out why. I'm braindumping all the info I have on this
>problem, but I'm pretty sure that this isn't enough info to diagnose the
>problem. I'm looking for clever ways to track this down mostly, but if
>anyone has magically experienced this exact same problem and has a
solution,
>super.
>
>
>The symptoms are:
>- Randomly, and infrequently, gameplay will freeze for 4 to 5 seconds, then
>resume normally
>- I have seen it happen on the emulator and real devices, on various OS
>versions
>- It sometimes happens shortly after starting up the app (within a minute
or
>two), it sometimes takes 20 minutes or more to happen, and sometimes seems
>to never happen at all.
>
>The environment is:
>The app depends on nilEvents for its updates. During gameplay, EvtGetEvent
>is called with an appropriate (and consistent) delay value to ensure that
>nilEvents are sent to keep things moving.
>
>The possibilities I have come up with are:
>
>a) My code is doing something that takes 4 to 5 seconds and occurs randomly
>b) My code is handling nilEvents improperly, causing the OS to occasionally
>sit back for a bit and think
>c) My code is doing something incorrectly with the hard keys, causing the
OS
>to occasionally sit back for a bit and think
>d) The OS has normal 4-5 second pauses related to some sort of
notification,
>and you normally don't notice it
>
>My analysis of each of the above is below:
>
>a) (is it all my code?) Clearly I can't locate anything in my own code that
>is causing this or I would have fixed it, but I am unsure how to determine
>who or what is causing this pause in the first place, so I can't rule out
my
>code.
>
>b) (is it nilEvents?) Many nilEvents are generated, and if they stop
>flowing, this type of pause is what would result. However, SysHandleEvent
>and MenuHandleEvent are given a crack at the nilEvents before my code gets
>to them, so I think the OS is being fed properly.
>
>c) (is it hard keys?) Hard keys are disabled with KeySetMask. Perhaps the
OS
>is stuffing these key events somewhere, and occasionally has to barf them?
>If this were the case, I think the mystery pause would be more consistent.
>
>d) (is it a normal OS pause?) I have seen normal OS pauses similar to this,
>e.g. the stroke of midnight, but I have tried to correspond these delays to
>some sort of time or alarm event with no luck. It seems pretty random, so I
>don't think it's time based, but perhaps there is some other occasional
>housekeeping that could cause such a pause?
>
>Some things I haven't done yet:
>Have not added code to detect a long pause (this should be easy to do - I
>could track every event, then when a >1 sec pause happens, dump out the
last
>10 events)
>Have not determined if an event (like a screen tap) breaks out of the 4-5
>second pause (this would answer the question: "is it just not getting an
>event for 5 seconds")
>
>Thanks for any input!
>
>Scott
>Red Mercury, LLC
>http://www.red-mercury.com
>
>
>
>
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