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Re: preventing IR tower shutdown
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:44:34 GMT
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Original-From:
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Ron Beck <rtb@richmond.+antispam+infi.net>
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rtb@richmond.STOPSPAMinfi.net
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Laurentino Martins wrote:
> Simply put, what happened was that a simple FOR/WHILE cycle waiting
> for a response of the unit was so processor intensive, that the timer
> would never get executed (since the timer it's a lot priority call).
> I fixed it by pumping the system messages while running that FOR/WHILE
> cycle so that the timer would work.
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> You can pump the messages in C++ like this:
> while( ::PeekMessage( &msg, NULL, 0, 0, PM_NOREMOVE ) )
> AfxGetThread()->PumpMessage();
> The VB code should be similar (?).
>
> Laurentino Martins
In VB you would probably want to put a DoEvents in such a tight loop.
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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| (...) I had a problem that happened a lot to me in Visual C++ and that might be or not be related with your problem. Simply put, what happened was that a simple FOR/WHILE cycle waiting for a response of the unit was so processor intensive, that the (...) (25 years ago, 14-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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