#262

shared/event/src/windows/timer.c

@@ -20,17 +20,36 @@ HANDLE timer_start(int usec)
   timeBeginPeriod(1);
 
   hTimer = CreateWaitableTimer(NULL, FALSE, NULL);
-  LARGE_INTEGER li = { .QuadPart = 0 };
-  SetWaitableTimer(hTimer, &li, usec / 1000, NULL, NULL, FALSE);
+  if(hTimer)
+  {
+    LARGE_INTEGER li = { .QuadPart = -(usec*10) };
+    if(!SetWaitableTimer(hTimer, &li, usec / 1000, NULL, NULL, FALSE))
+    {
+      fprintf(stderr, "SetWaitableTimer failed.\n");
+      hTimer = NULL;
+    }
+  }
+  else
+  {
+    fprintf(stderr, "CreateWaitableTimer failed.\n");
+  }
 
+  if(!hTimer)
+  {
+    timeEndPeriod(0);
+  }
+
   return hTimer;
 }
 
 int timer_close(int unused)
 {
-  CloseHandle(hTimer);
-
-  timeEndPeriod(0);
+  if(hTimer)
+  {
+    CloseHandle(hTimer);
+
+    timeEndPeriod(0);
+  }
 
   return 1;
 }

shared/event/src/windows/winmm/windows_wminput.c

@@ -542,9 +542,11 @@ void wminput_handler_buff()
 }
 
 /*
- * For some reason GetRawInputBuffer does not work when winmm and SDL-1.2.14 are used together...
+ * For some reason GetRawInputBuffer does not work in Windows 8:
+ * it seems there remain WM_INPUT messages in the queue, which
+ * make the MsgWaitForMultipleInput always return immediately.
  */
-int buff = 1;
+int buff = 0;
 
 static LRESULT CALLBACK RawWndProc(HWND hWnd, UINT Msg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
 {

shared/event/test/GE_test.c

@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
     //do something periodically
   }
 
+  GE_TimerClose();
+
   GE_quit();
 
   printf("Exiting\n");