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A new function? ReadMSTImer(timerID)

Mon, 04/14/2025 - 11:46 am

Would it be worthwhile to add a ReadMStimer (timerID) function? Such a function would return the elapsed time of that timer, but without halting or releasing the timer. This would speed up and streamline getting 'lap times' for an ongoing process. Callers would continue to use StopMStimer( ) at the end of their process to terminate and release the timer object.

thomas_braun

One can already use `stopmstimer(-2)` to get the elapsed time in ms without stopping it. But there is only one of them.

April 14, 2025 at 01:11 pm - Permalink

aclight

Make sure that you aren't calling StartMSTimer in threads (or if you do that you make sure that you never have more than 10 timers running at one time).

Also, I suggest using StopMSTimer(-2) exclusively (subtracting the stop time from the start time) as this avoids the need to lock a mutex which is required when using StartMSTimer.

April 14, 2025 at 03:29 pm - Permalink