Hi John,
If you need to work with timers in cvi, you'd better use the
C:\CVI\toolslib\toolbox\asynctmr.fp library which is more precise.
John Boro wrote in message
news:393406bf@newsgroups.ni.com...
>
> I've recently upgraded to CVI 5.5 (NT) and found that the Timer function
seems
> to roll incorrectly and is causing major problems. I've read about an old
> problem where it take 41 days or so but this happens sooner and appear
random.
>
> In the debug mode, one Timer () call returns 86 then the next call would
> return 8590648 (only after a few minutes). Subsequent calls are correct
> based on the return value from second call.
> I think this may bug may have been around in earlier versions but I just
> never caught it (but wierd things I
've been seeing now make sense).
> Has anyone seen this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> John Boro
>
