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[MasterGy]

When reading that Wiki page correctly, then its almost the same thing I do here:

Measuring time myself in that way is what I do to keep approx. 25FPS, you find those kind of constructs a lot in my GuiTools Framework eg. to avoid flicker when moving slider/scroller knobs etc..

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_DISPLAY 'stop _AUTODISPLAY



stim# = TIMER(0.001) 'get start time

DO

    '---------------------

    'do drawing stuff here

    '---------------------

    etim# = TIMER(0.001) - stim# 'time needed for drawing (delta time)

    IF etim# < 0 THEN etim# = etim# + 86400 'midnight fix

    IF etim# >= 0.04 THEN 'desired FPS 1/25 = 0.04

        _DISPLAY

        stim# = TIMER(0.001) 'restart timer

    END IF

LOOP UNTIL done%



_AUTODISPLAY 'back to normal

The option I showed helps in that if the timing of the main cycle is changed (with _limit or _timer, this is irrelevant now), then the movement and speed of the animations will remain unchanged. What you have shown is a possible solution to a fixed timing.