GetTickCount

Returns number of clock ticks used by Windows since Windows started.

Syntax:

GetTickCount( )

Parameters:

(none)

Returns:

(1) The number of clock ticks.

Use this function to obtain the number of "Virtual" clock ticks that have occurred since Windows was started. For normal Windows, each virtual clock tick is about a millisecond ( 1/1000 of a second).

Example:

a=GetTickCount( )
Message("Clock Ticks", a)

See Also:

TimeDate, GetExactTime, TimeYmdHms, GetTickCount64