I'm trying to devise a way of a getting some kind of timer to signal an event in my WPF application with an interval of around 5ms. My attempts with using a DispatchTimer or a Timer and having the interval set to 1ms, lead to their "tick" events being triggered at only around 60 times a second, which isnt fast enough.

Is there any way I can achieve something faster? either through some event mechanism or by any other means?

I would like something similar to that of a win32 application, as shown below.

int Application::run(){   while(msg.message != WM_QUIT)   {	    if(PeekMessage( &msg, 0, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE )) // If there are Window messages then process them.	    {			 TranslateMessage( &msg );			 DispatchMessage( &msg );	    }	    else // Otherwise, do my work	    {    		    	    }   return (int)msg.wParam;}

I assume this is how WPF is doing it in the background with its Application.Run(Window()) method. Is there anyway of getting some kind of callback on that "else" branch?

I'm trying to devise a way of a getting some kind of timer to signal an event in my WPF application with an interval of around 5ms. My attempts with using a DispatchTimer or a Timer and having the interval set to 1ms, lead to their "tick" events being triggered at only around 60 times a second, which isnt fast enough.

Is there any way I can achieve something faster? either through some event mechanism or by any other means?

I would like something similar to that of a win32 application, as shown below.

int Application::run(){   while(msg.message != WM_QUIT)   {	    if(PeekMessage( &msg, 0, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE )) // If there are Window messages then process them.	    {			 TranslateMessage( &msg );			 DispatchMessage( &msg );	    }	    else // Otherwise, do my work	    {    		    	    }   return (int)msg.wParam;}

I assume this is how WPF is doing it in the background with its Application.Run(Window()) method. Is there anyway of getting some kind of callback on that "else" branch?

I'm trying to devise a way of a getting some kind of timer to signal an event in my WPF application with an interval of around 5ms. My attempts with using a DispatchTimer or a Timer and having the interval set to 1ms, lead to their "tick" events being triggered at only around 60 times a second, which isnt fast enough.

 

Is there any way I can achieve something faster? either through some event mechanism or by any other means?

 

I would like something similar to that of a win32 application, as shown below.

 

int Application::run()
{
   while(msg.message != WM_QUIT)
   {
        if(PeekMessage( &msg, 0, 0, 0, PM_REMOVE )) // If there are Window messages then process them.
        {
             TranslateMessage( &msg );
             DispatchMessage( &msg );
        }
        else // Otherwise, do my work
        {    
            
        }
   return (int)msg.wParam;
}

 

I assume this is how WPF is doing it in the background with its Application.Run(Window()) method. Is there anyway of getting some kind of callback on that "else" branch?