timer while mouse is moving

Hi, I have a little problem and hope someone will help me tosolve it:
I need to show a string on the screen for a small, customizable amount of time (e.g. 50-500 milliseconds)
A good result is obtained with millisecs(), but I noticed that moving the mouse around slows the execution and makes time impredictable, even if mouse is hidden (either in Blitz Basic and in Blitz Plus): use of delay() seems not useful.
Some idesas? Thank you
allos

Perhaps using a timer in your main loop could help. Look for Createtimer() and Waittimer() commands.

Hope this helps,
Sergio.

hey, try this out. might be of some use

Graphics 800,600
Text 0,0," press any key to begin"
WaitKey()
SetBuffer BackBuffer()


a$="Hello"

time=4000
timer=MilliSecs()

While Not KeyHit(1)

	Cls

	If KeyHit(200) Then timer=MilliSecs()
	Rect MouseX(),MouseY(),2,2
	
	If timer+time>MilliSecs() Then
		Text MouseX(),MouseY(),a$
		Text 0,0,"Text will display for another "+((timer+time)-MilliSecs())
	End If
	
	Text 300,0," Press up to restart timer"
	
	Flip
Wend
End