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1/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2// Name: stopwatch.h
3// Purpose: interface of wxStopWatch
4// Author: wxWidgets team
5// RCS-ID: $Id$
6// Licence: wxWindows licence
7/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9/**
10 @class wxStopWatch
11
12 The wxStopWatch class allow you to measure time intervals.
13
14 For example, you may use it to measure the time elapsed by some function:
15
16 @code
17 wxStopWatch sw;
18 CallLongRunningFunction();
19 wxLogMessage("The long running function took %ldms to execute",
20 sw.Time());
21 sw.Pause();
22 ... stopwatch is stopped now ...
23 sw.Resume();
24 CallLongRunningFunction();
25 wxLogMessage("And calling it twice took $ldms in all", sw.Time());
26 @endcode
27
28 Since wxWidgets 2.9.3 this class uses @c ::QueryPerformanceCounter()
29 function under MSW to measure the elapsed time. It provides higher
30 precision than the usual timer functions but can suffer from bugs in its
31 implementation in some Windows XP versions. If you encounter such problems,
32 installing a Microsoft hot fix from http://support.microsoft.com/?id=896256
33 could be necessary.
34
35 @library{wxbase}
36 @category{misc}
37
38 @see wxTimer
39*/
40class wxStopWatch
41{
42public:
43 /**
44 Constructor. This starts the stop watch.
45 */
46 wxStopWatch();
47
48 /**
49 Pauses the stop watch. Call Resume() to resume time measuring again.
50
51 If this method is called several times, @c Resume() must be called the same
52 number of times to really resume the stop watch. You may, however, call
53 Start() to resume it unconditionally.
54 */
55 void Pause();
56
57 /**
58 Resumes the stop watch which had been paused with Pause().
59 */
60 void Resume();
61
62 /**
63 (Re)starts the stop watch with a given initial value.
64
65 The stopwatch will always be running after calling Start(), even if
66 Pause() had been called before and even if it had been called multiple
67 times.
68 */
69 void Start(long milliseconds = 0);
70
71 /**
72 Returns the time in milliseconds since the start (or restart) or the last
73 call of Pause().
74
75 @see TimeInMicro()
76 */
77 long Time() const;
78
79 /**
80 Returns elapsed time in microseconds.
81
82 This method is similar to Time() but returns the elapsed time in
83 microseconds and not milliseconds. Notice that not all platforms really
84 can measure times with this precision.
85
86 @since 2.9.3
87 */
88 wxLongLong TimeInMicro() const;
89};
90