1cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2cdf0e10cSrcweir 3d33d0967SAndrew Rist<!--*********************************************************** 4*923b75a4Smseidel * 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 12*923b75a4Smseidel * 13d33d0967SAndrew Rist * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14*923b75a4Smseidel * 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. 21*923b75a4Smseidel * 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"> 33cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147143"><bookmark_value>GetSystemTicks function</bookmark_value> 34cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 35cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147143" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03130700.xhp" name="GetSystemTicks Function [Runtime]">GetSystemTicks Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 36cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153750" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the number of system ticks provided by the operating system. You can use this function to optimize certain processes.</paragraph> 37cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153311" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 39cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147242" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">GetSystemTicks()</paragraph> 40cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149233" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 41cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149762" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Long</paragraph> 42cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 43cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156152" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Example:</paragraph> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148943" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">Sub ExampleWait</paragraph> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146795" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Dim lTick As Long</paragraph> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145069" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">lTick = GetSystemTicks()</paragraph> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147560" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">wait 2000</paragraph> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149655" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">lTick = (GetSystemTicks() - lTick)</paragraph> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154938" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">MsgBox "" & lTick & " Ticks" ,0,"The pause lasted"</paragraph> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150542" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">End Sub</paragraph> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 54