Timer Interval

[XXkillerFin1]

Hey guys, Is it possible to change timer.interval to lower than 1?

[abuckau907]

Hey guys, Is it possible to change timer.interval to lower than 1?

Yes, and No.

Timers.Timer has an Interval that is declared as Double. Msdn says "value must be greater than 0" -- I test with 0.01 and it works.

Windows.Forms.Timer (which is what you get when you drag a Timer control onto your form) has an Interval that is Integer. No decimal places.



-I'm not sure setting it any smaller will actually achieve what you want. If you want it to run as fast as physically possible, use a background Thread.

[Xenocode]

Measuring less than one millisecond on Windows is impossible.
However, It is not the speed which does not allow it, times are in ticks which is in Windows a 100th nano second.
But Windows is a multi tasking OS, which means that the processor is not always busy with the process the timer is handled in.

[XXkillerFin1]

Yes, and No.

Timers.Timer has an Interval that is declared as Double. Msdn says "value must be greater than 0" -- I test with 0.01 and it works.

Windows.Forms.Timer (which is what you get when you drag a Timer control onto your form) has an Interval that is Integer. No decimal places.



-I'm not sure setting it any smaller will actually achieve what you want. If you want it to run as fast as physically possible, use a background Thread.

Ok, Thanks for information + Thanked