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Started by whoop1 January 09, 2006 02:00 PM

3 comments, last by Colin Jeanne 18 years, 3 months ago

whoop1

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January 09, 2006 02:00 PM

This is a question on a past exam. Can anyone help me find out the answer? which of the following approaches should be used to keep a game running at 30 frames per second and why? 1/ set up a time object and trap WM_TIMER events in the applications WinProc. 2/ Use a function such as GetTickCount() to read the number of milliseconds from a hardware clock that have elapsed since the system was started.

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January 09, 2006 02:03 PM

the answer is 2

whoop1

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January 09, 2006 02:07 PM

thanks, but that hasn't taught me much, can you tell me why the answer is 2?

noteventime

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January 09, 2006 02:43 PM

I think you might want to avoid the windows messanging system as much as possible.

Colin Jeanne

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January 09, 2006 02:46 PM

WM_TIMER messages are not that reliable since they are put on the backburner in favor of other messages.

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