The component uses a Win32 multimedia timer and the time stamp counter of the Pentium processor for timing. Using the time stamp counter only for a wait routine adds a lot of CPU load. Therefor this component uses a multimedia timer for long time timing. As soon the remaining time to wait is smaller than the accuracy of the multimedia timer, the component switches to the time stamp counter. This reduces the CPU load to a minimum still achieving high accuracy. The high resolution timer can be selected between the time stamp counter introduced with the Pentium processor or the high performance counter of Windows.
 
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• Fast thread timer,
• Download timer
• PID controler - advancet controler. You can use it to control production variables, in game as intelligent component, in animation for interesting effect.

• Millisecond duration;
• CPU Clock Cycles counter.

Three property's:

• MaxIntervals
• StopAtMax
• Intervals, to get the number of intervals.

• onActivate
• onDeactivate
• onMaxIntervals.

Supported OS: Windows XP/2003/Vista/2008.
 
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GetTSC reads the TSC (Time-Stamp-Counter) of the Pentium processor. This 64-bit register counts every processor clock since reset. Even with a slow 66 Mhz processor you have a resolution of 15 nanoseconds.
 
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System Idle time is the time interval of full user inactivity. In this interval any user action is missing on the computer, like pressing a key of the keyboard or moving the mouse or pressing a mouse button or rotating the scroll.

Application Idle time is the time interval of user inactivity inside of one application. In this interval the user doesn't press a key of the keyboard or a mouse button inside of one window of the application.
 
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System Idle time is the time interval of full user inactivity. In this interval any user action is missing on the computer, like pressing a key of the keyboard or moving the mouse or pressing a mouse button or rotating the scroll.
 
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TTimer component which ships with Delphi / C++Builder uses the Windows Message Queue to generate the OnTimer event. Due to this approach it's impossible to get accurate timer intervals smaller than 50 milliseconds.

ZylTimer is a thread based timer and due to this architecture provides a real precision of 1 millisecond which is inevitable in time critical applications. The OnTimer event is always fired in time which is not available for the standard TTimer, when there are too many messages processed.

The standard TTimer component uses the SetTimer API function, so the interval is limited to 2147483647 milliseconds (about 25 days). ZylTimer is a thread based timer and the interval could be set even to hundred years if necessary.
 
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