If anyone relied on an OS limitation rather than inputting the correct value to time their application, I think they deserve to have their code broken! ;-)
My guess is, RS had nothing to do with it, it just happens that something changed in the OS that made it work faster in RB. I guess we'll see if/when they respond to this. Math On 5/15/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It used to be the case that a Timer, on a Mac, couldn't fire more than > about 60 times per second, the rate of the event loop. (On Windows, I > think the max was 100 Hz, but I'm not sure.) > > But I've just discovered that this is no longer the case, at least in > 2007R2. With a Period of 100, it fires at about 10 Hz as expected. > With a Period of 10, it fires at almost 100 Hz. And with a period of > 1, it's firing at over 500 Hz for me. > > I can see this as a feature, but it sure caught me by surprise, and > worth pointing out in case anyone else didn't know about it yet. Does > anybody know when this changed? _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
