[Visualpython-users] minor (if strange) bug with rate(x)

Hi,

 

As I have mentioned before, I am working on a really cool program for
displaying lots of real time data graphically.

 

I am now working away so I have turned to running the script on my laptop
(which admittedly is a reasonably powerful DTR, though not as powerful as my
desktop).

 

My desktop runs at 125.0 fps pretty much bang on. (it's a quad core 3GHz AMD
Phenom with a dual head Quadro graphics card running XP).

 

But on my laptop the fps jumps all over the place, but centres on about 100
fps.  (This is a 3GHz dual core with a proper internal NVidia graphics card)

 

Now, the script *HAS* to run at a rate of at least 111.11 fps or it breaks
as the streaming data starts to back up and cease to be real time.

 

At first I thought perhaps my laptop was simply too slow to process the data
L - bum!! So I took out the rate(125) line, it went to 8k fps.  Hum, can't
be that then.

 

So I change the rate(125) line to rate(150) and bingo it now works, with a
rate of about 148.0 fps.  It is as though the calibration on the rate(x)
timer is a bit squiffy?

 

Any clues?

 

So, it looks like to make it portable I need a contiguous feedback
adjustment of the rate(x) - perhaps that feature should be part of the code?

 

Cheers,

Jason.