[Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Mon May 19 10:57:33 CEST 2014



On Mon, 19 May 2014, Reinier Olislagers wrote:

> On 18/05/2014 09:08, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 May 2014, Tom Lisjac wrote:
>>> No mystery here either. You never miss an opportunity to criticize
>>> EpikTimer for reasons I've never been able to understand.
>>
>> Nevertheless, I have named the reasons explicitly every time.
>>
>> It is simply frustrating to see that people ask for something
>> cross-platform, *better than Now()*
>> for timing, and then epiktimer is recommended. Never fails.
>
> I suspect because epiktimer has better PR/visibility than the native FPC
> alternatives.
> Why not update the EpikTimer page with information regarding the
> alternatives?

I'm hoping that the epiktimer implementation will be improved.

Meanwhile, enough suggestions on how to improve the implementation 
have been made.

Michael.




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