It would consider the resolution of your timer. Are you talking about a numeric timer
or a graphical timer where you have some
image progressing or degressing. There are several "right" ways to do this:
* One is to trap nilEvent and update your timer that way.
* Another is to have a routine right after the event trapper case statements and see
if enough time has come by to justify a change
in the graphics of your timer.
Steve
Steve Austin wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm sure someone has done this before, so I figured I"d ask for advice. I
> need to display a "ticking" timer and I'm wondering about event frequency.
> I know how to send events, and I know how to handle the screen, but how do I
> get an event to process every second. It seems like if I was going to write
> code to do this I'd end up filling the message queue with timer messages,
> and most of the time the timer code would just exit, until a second actually
> passed. This kind of timer would use up 100% CPU time, and make it
> difficult to process user input (like clicking a button that closed the
> form). What's the "right" way to go about this....
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>
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