Chapter 9 Timer and Joystick Services

This chapter shows you how to add joystick input capabilities to your application and how to control event timing. Timer interrupt services provide improved timer resolution with up to one-millisecond accuracy. The joystick services can receive control signals from up to two joysticks.

This chapter includes the following main topics:

Timer interrupt services

Joystick services

Functions and data structures associated with the joystick and timer-interrupt services are defined in MMSYSTEM.H and MMSYSTEM.LIB.