>>>Not overhead, but quite a bit of coding. Can you explain what is supposed to be the problem if I just set the timer, say, to 2 hours (2 * 3600 * 1000)? You mention accuracy, but doesn't the timer automatically check, at regular intervals, whether the specified time elapsed?
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>>What if you check every two hours, and the timer was supposed to run an hour and 45 minutes ago? Then accuracy is lost anyways.
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>>BTW, there's another timer in the Files section here, a Bela FLL, I heard its pretty accurate.
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>"If you check every two hours"?
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>If I set the Timer.Interval property to 2 hours, I expect the Timer() event to run after two hours - without me having to do additional checks or coding. Under what circumstances would that fail?
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>Hilmar.
When the time expires while some OTHER (non-VFP) process is running.
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