1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir 3d33d0967SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 4cdf0e10cSrcweir * 5d33d0967SAndrew Rist * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6d33d0967SAndrew Rist * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7d33d0967SAndrew Rist * distributed with this work for additional information 8d33d0967SAndrew Rist * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9d33d0967SAndrew Rist * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10d33d0967SAndrew Rist * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11d33d0967SAndrew Rist * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12cdf0e10cSrcweir * 13d33d0967SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14cdf0e10cSrcweir * 15d33d0967SAndrew Rist * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16d33d0967SAndrew Rist * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17d33d0967SAndrew Rist * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18d33d0967SAndrew Rist * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19d33d0967SAndrew Rist * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20d33d0967SAndrew Rist * under the License. 21cdf0e10cSrcweir * 22d33d0967SAndrew Rist ***********************************************************--> 23d33d0967SAndrew Rist 24cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 26cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsbasicshared03130700xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">GetSystemTicks Function [Runtime]</title> 28cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03130700.xhp</filename> 29cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 30cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 31cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 32cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="getsystemticks"> 3336faf8a5Smseidel<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147143"> 3436faf8a5Smseidel<bookmark_value>GetSystemTicks function</bookmark_value> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 36*0f62cddbSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147143" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03130700.xhp" name="GetSystemTicks Function [Runtime]">GetSystemTicks Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 37*0f62cddbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153750" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Returns the number of system ticks provided by the operating system. You can use this function to optimize certain processes.</paragraph> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 39*0f62cddbSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153311" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Syntax:</paragraph> 40*0f62cddbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147242" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">GetSystemTicks()</paragraph> 41*0f62cddbSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149233" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Return value:</paragraph> 42*0f62cddbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149762" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Long</paragraph> 43cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 45*0f62cddbSmseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156152" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 46*0f62cddbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148943" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleWait</paragraph> 47*0f62cddbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146795" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim lTick As Long</paragraph> 48*0f62cddbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145069" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">lTick = GetSystemTicks()</paragraph> 49*0f62cddbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147560" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">wait 2000</paragraph> 50*0f62cddbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149655" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">lTick = (GetSystemTicks() - lTick)</paragraph> 51*0f62cddbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154938" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">MsgBox "" & lTick & " Ticks" ,0,"The pause lasted"</paragraph> 52*0f62cddbSmseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150542" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">End Sub</paragraph> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 55