multimedia timers synchronization

[Stuart Dootson]

Are you trying to pass multimedia timer events into your window handling code or the other way round? If it's the first option and you're using timerSetEvent, you could do this:

1. For each timer events, create a kernel event.
2. Create the the timer event using the flag TIME_CALLBACK_EVENT_SET and pass the kernel event handle as the callback procedure.
3. Create a thread with a function that (in a loop) does a WaitForMultipleObjects, waiting for any one of the kernel events set by the timers.
4. When an event is detected in the thread function, POST a window message as appropriate.

The general pattern of setting kernel events with timer events allows you to transfer the timer event into another thread. BTW - do you realise that the multimedia timer API is obsolete and could easily disappear soon? You might be better off using timer queues (see this article for a description[^]) that, as far as I can tell, have the same resolution and accuracy as multimedia timers. Also, it looks like they're better tied into the Windows synchronisation functionality.

[Mark Salsbery]

Stuart Dootson wrote:

do you realise that the multimedia timer API is obsolete and could easily disappear soon?

Hi Stuart, Where did you hear that? Link? Mark

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[CPallini]

Mark Salsbery wrote:

Hi Stuart, Where did you hear that?

I told him. ;) :-D

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[Mark Salsbery]

So where did YOU hear that? ;P I don't see any indication that the multimedia timer APIs are deprecated. Mark

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[CPallini]

Mark Salsbery wrote:

So where did YOU hear that

If I remember well, Stuart Dootson told me. :rolleyes:

Mark Salsbery wrote:

I don't see any indication that the multimedia timer APIs are deprecated.

Because we should keep it secret. :)

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[Mark Salsbery]

CPallini wrote:

Because we should keep it secret.

ok. shhhhh :)

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[Stuart Dootson]

That's what I read into this page[^]. Looking at Larry Osterman's blog post[^] again, it's just timeSetEvent and timeKillEvent.

[Mark Salsbery]

Excellent! Thank you :) Mark

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[Stuart Dootson]

CPallini wrote:

Because we should keep it secret

But now you've let the cat out of the bag!!! The boys'll be round to sort you out ;)

[Mark Salsbery]

It's only me....I won't tell anyone!

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[CPallini]

Wow the cat is out, hence is alive: we should tell to Mr. Schroedinger... (or is the above another secret?) :-D

If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong. -- Iain Clarke
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