Timer Speed Up

[daveStudent]

I'm current using a timer with an interval of 1000ms.

This timer is created and disposed many times throughout the life of the program via the capture of Alt and C buttons respectively. I dont know if this has any relevance but im using global hooks to start/stop the timer when the form isnt in focus to capture those key down events (for some reason Alt doesnt raise a key press, only a key down.)

After a few creations/disposes it seems the timer interval drastically reduces and approaches 1ms.

i've tried resetting the interval time everytime i create the instance of the timer but that doesnt seem to work.

the timer tick is firing a mouse_event of left button down then after another tick, mouse_vent of left button up.

I've also setup a way to check the interval value and the object always reports it to be 1000ms..which is impossible as i can see the mouse selecting and double clicking anything it comes into contact with. (which should be impossible since i've used the SetDoubleClickTime(1))

any help would be greatly appreciated

[Pirate]

How about this :
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ighlight=timer
I know it's API function but it'd be more faster and has lower system overhead than using the timer component .

[grilkip]

It would be helpfull if you could post some of your code.

[jmcilhinney]

Why should your Timer be created and destroyed repeatedly? All you need to do is use a single Timer object and call its Start and Stop methods I would have thought. Also, I'd avoid using Alt+<anything> as a keyboard hook because that could have specific meaning in other apps if it is a mnemonic. Ctrl+Alt+<something> is less likely to be meaningful to other apps.

[daveStudent]

i originally had the timer being stopped and started using the myTimer.Start() and myTimer.Stop() methods. I thought that the object was getting its properties corrupted somehow so i decided to create/destroy on each use, to no avail.

I have since switched back to the Stop and Start.

The code regarding the high accuracy time span is interesting and i will try it out when i get home.

Since posting i've added a logger to see if there was any logic to the interval decreasing..and it seems that the interval was decreasing by exactly 50% eachtime the timer was disposed/created. I think a possibility is that i have multiple timers firing off tick events and only one method firing on those different timers ( i dont know if thats even possible..but im ready to consider anything right now ).

I'm at work and can't access my code but ill rewrite what i have from scratch for the guy requesting the code.

[grilkip]

Looks like you just answered your own question, you haven't disposed the timer properly.