WM_TIMER

WM_TIMER is sent so many milliseconds. However, it is only extracted by GetMessage if no other messages are in the queue, making it a potentially high-latency message. You can use waitable timers for more precise timing, see CreateWaitableTimer/SetWaitableTimer. Or you can just use timeGetTime/QueryPerformanceCounter and see if enough time passed since last event to repeat the event.

WM_TIMER isn''t a very good way to run events like that - it''s too dependant upon the message pump and has rather high variance.

Magmai Kai Holmlor

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