QML Timer - How to improve accuracy?

Question

I'm developing a QML metronome. I used a timer with interval 60000/Beats per minute. However it isn't really accurate. How can I improve the accuracy. Should I use a Timer, or is there a better solution?

Answer 1

The fundamental issue with QTimer that it uses the Qt event loop for the timing. Unfortunately, it cannot be accurate enough, inherently. The latency for notifications and all that within the event loop is getting in the way.

You would need to consider a timer that does not actually depend highly on the Qt event loop, like QueryPerformanceCounter() on Windows. That is how we get to the realm of QElapsedTimer.

Thereby, I would use QElapsedTimer for this purpose.

The following post has a custom class implemented for this purpose as it seems. You may be able to take it as is, and then tweak it to suit your need even better if needed.

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