How fast should I poll the mouse for position chan
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Developing for BeOS
BeOS Internals
How fast should I poll the mouse for position changes? Should I just sit in a tight GetMouse(...) loop?
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Developing for BeOS:
BeOS Internals
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FAQ Number:
FAQ-0171
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Last Modified:
3/31/98
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Keywords:
BeOS,
Developing,
Internals,
interrupt,
mouse,
position,
GetMouse
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If you poll the mouse position, do use a sleep time somewhere in the loop, otherwise you will waste a full CPU getting the mouse position 10,000 times per second!
For example:
while(xyz)
{GetMouse(&a_point etc...);
snooze(X microseconds);}
As a rule of thumb, polling about 50 times a second (i.e., every 20,000 +/- microseconds) seems about right.
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