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I need to use a lot of timers in the Main Form of my windows application. What is a better design
1) To have all those timers as Forms.timer in the Main Form
2)To have a class which has System.Timer timers and then refer to an instance of the Main Form
Oct 4 '07 #1
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Plater
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It has been my recent experiance to learn that windows.forms.Timers do not execute their TICK event if the thread is busy in a loop.
A System.Threading.Timer might be more usefull if you need a bunch of threads going?
(I was in a loop waiting for data, the data wouldn't come in until a timer_tick event happened....it never happened until the loop timed out)
Oct 4 '07 #2
gagonm
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you can use Multimediatimer for more accurate time calculation.
Oct 6 '07 #3

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