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deveraux83

04-20-2004 01:17 PM

timing in c++

Hi all,

Was just wondering the best method to keep track of time elapsed or just real time for that matter. I know that in glX code, you get use the function getMilliSeconds() to return time elapsed in milli seconds while in SDL you can use SDL_GetTicks() to do the same thing. However, is there a way of doing it in console mode?

I've tried reading some stuff on time/date in c++ but can't seem to figure it out (ie localtime/gmtime require a time argument). Any help/suggestions?

Thanks

jim mcnamara

04-20-2004 01:38 PM

If I get what you want: gettimeofday() returns a very fine grained time.
It's in time.h

The_Nerd

04-20-2004 05:34 PM

Time.h

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

#include <time.h>



int main(int argc, char **argv)

{

        clock_t startTime=0;



        while(1)

        {

                startTime=clock();

                while((clock()-startTime)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC<1000); //Sleep one second

                printf("One second elapsed!");

        }    

}

Now I don't know if thats perfect, because its off the top of my head. But I do know you need to look into clock() from time.h

Enjoy!

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