[perl-win32-gui-users] Timers
I have some code that uses the Timer object but it doesn't always work correctly. My code grabs the time when the program is run and determines how many minutes and seconds are left until the next hour. A timer event is fired on the hour that kills the current timer and creates a new timer that fires an event every hour. It works for a few hours and then all of the sudden it is off by 5 seconds or so. It doesn't seem to be consistent either. Sometimes it will work correctly for 16 hours or so and then the timing is off and sometimes it works for only one hour and then the timing is off. Does anyone know why this happens? Can it be fixed? Jonathan Jonathan Southwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical & Network Services Allegheny College, Meadville, PA 16335 (814) 332-2755
[perl-win32-gui-users] Timers (cont)
Here is some output that gets written within the Timer event when it is fired: It is now 08:41:24 Update in 18:36 in Update Data killing timer after 108 seconds setting new timer for every hour updated data here at 09:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 10:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 11:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 12:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 13:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 14:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 15:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 16:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 17:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 18:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 19:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 20:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 21:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 22:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 23:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 00:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 01:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 02:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 03:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 04:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 04:59:55 in Update Data updated data here at 05:59:55 in Update Data updated data here at 06:59:55 in Update Data updated data here at 07:59:55 in Update Data ^C ## a new run of the program ## It is now 13:53:05 Update in 6:55 in Update Data killing timer after 36 seconds setting new timer for every hour updated data here at 14:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 15:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 16:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 17:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 18:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 19:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 20:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 21:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 22:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 23:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 00:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 00:59:55 in Update Data updated data here at 01:59:55 in Update Data updated data here at 02:59:55 in Update Data updated data here at 03:59:55 ^C ## a new run of the program ## It is now 08:24:56 Update in 35:4 in Update Data killing timer after 210 seconds setting new timer for every hour updated data here at 09:00:00 in Update Data updated data here at 10:00:01 in Update Data updated data here at 11:00:01 in Update Data updated data here at 12:00:01 in Update Data updated data here at 13:00:01 in Update Data updated data here at 14:00:01 in Update Data updated data here at 15:00:01 in Update Data updated data here at 16:00:01 in Update Data updated data here at 17:00:01 in Update Data updated data here at 18:00:01 in Update Data updated data here at 19:00:01 in Update Data updated data here at 20:00:01 in Update Data updated data here at 20:59:56 in Update Data updated data here at 21:59:56 in Update Data updated data here at 22:59:56 in Update Data updated data here at 23:59:56 ^C I don't know if this helps explain what I am talking about. Jonathan Jonathan Southwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical & Network Services Allegheny College, Meadville, PA 16335 (814) 332-2755
RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Timers
Does it do anything else besides use the timers to trigger events? I'm wondering if it gets hung up somewhere else in the code that you can maybe add a DoEvents() or Update() -Original Message- From: Jonathan Southwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] Timers I have some code that uses the Timer object but it doesn't always work correctly. My code grabs the time when the program is run and determines how many minutes and seconds are left until the next hour. A timer event is fired on the hour that kills the current timer and creates a new timer that fires an event every hour. It works for a few hours and then all of the sudden it is off by 5 seconds or so. It doesn't seem to be consistent either. Sometimes it will work correctly for 16 hours or so and then the timing is off and sometimes it works for only one hour and then the timing is off. Does anyone know why this happens? Can it be fixed? Jonathan Jonathan Southwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical & Network Services Allegheny College, Meadville, PA 16335 (814) 332-2755 --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com Understand how to protect your customers personal information by implementing SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache Guide: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0029en ___ Perl-Win32-GUI-Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users
RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Timers
There are other events that usually get triggered but they do not get triggered during this test I am doing because the application is sitting on the taskbar while all this is happening. Jonathan At 1/16/2003 12:55 PM, Peter Eisengrein wrote: Does it do anything else besides use the timers to trigger events? I'm wondering if it gets hung up somewhere else in the code that you can maybe add a DoEvents() or Update() -Original Message- From: Jonathan Southwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] Timers I have some code that uses the Timer object but it doesn't always work correctly. My code grabs the time when the program is run and determines how many minutes and seconds are left until the next hour. A timer event is fired on the hour that kills the current timer and creates a new timer that fires an event every hour. It works for a few hours and then all of the sudden it is off by 5 seconds or so. It doesn't seem to be consistent either. Sometimes it will work correctly for 16 hours or so and then the timing is off and sometimes it works for only one hour and then the timing is off. Does anyone know why this happens? Can it be fixed? Jonathan Jonathan Southwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical & Network Services Allegheny College, Meadville, PA 16335 (814) 332-2755 --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com Understand how to protect your customers personal information by implementing SSL on your Apache Web Server. Click here to get our FREE Thawte Apache Guide: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0029en ___ Perl-Win32-GUI-Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users
