Decreasing timer interval in WP7 Silverlight

Asked Nov 25 '12 at 07:01

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I'm using DispatcherTimer in WP7 Silverlight to apply a simple translation animation on the menu.

Now, if I decrease the step length, the translation looks smooth, but slow. If I increase the step length, the translation looks fast, but not smooth.

The solution is to keep the step length small and decreasing the interval. But the problem is that the emulator makes the same number of steps for intervals equal 10 ms or less.

introTimer.Interval = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(10);

same as:

introTimer.Interval = TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(1);

So is there a way/alternative/solution to make something happen repeatedly each very small amount of time?

asked Nov 25 '12 at 07:01

Hamzeh Soboh

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Have you considered using a Storyboard for the animation? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.media.animation.storyboard(v=vs.95).aspx – Kevin Gosse Nov 25 '12 at 09:34
Actually, I haven't. But if it will solve my problem, I'll learn it. – Hamzeh Soboh Nov 25 '12 at 10:04
It will, and it will be way more efficient (simple storyboards, if correctly written, can be hardware accelerated: http://www.japf.fr/2012/03/wp7-perf-tip-translate-transforms/ ). – Kevin Gosse Nov 25 '12 at 10:27
Very nice, I will use it in my games. – Hamzeh Soboh Nov 25 '12 at 12:11

Decreasing timer interval in WP7 Silverlight

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