interface/wx/stopwatch.h

   1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   2 // Name:        stopwatch.h
   3 // Purpose:     interface of wxStopWatch
   4 // Author:      wxWidgets team
   5 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
   6 // Licence:     wxWindows license
   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     @library{wxbase}
  29     @category{misc}
  30
  31     @see wxTimer
  32 */
  33 class wxStopWatch
  34 {
  35 public:
  36     /**
  37         Constructor. This starts the stop watch.
  38     */
  39     wxStopWatch();
  40
  41     /**
  42         Pauses the stop watch. Call Resume() to resume time measuring again.
  43
  44         If this method is called several times, @c Resume() must be called the same
  45         number of times to really resume the stop watch. You may, however, call
  46         Start() to resume it unconditionally.
  47     */
  48     void Pause();
  49
  50     /**
  51         Resumes the stop watch which had been paused with Pause().
  52     */
  53     void Resume();
  54
  55     /**
  56         (Re)starts the stop watch with a given initial value.
  57     */
  58     void Start(long milliseconds = 0);
  59
  60     /**
  61         Returns the time in milliseconds since the start (or restart) or the last
  62         call of Pause().
  63     */
  64     long Time() const;
  65 };
  66
  67
  68
  69 // ============================================================================
  70 // Global functions/macros
  71 // ============================================================================
  72
  73 /** @ingroup group_funcmacro_time */
  74 //@{
  75
  76 /**
  77     Returns the number of seconds since local time 00:00:00 Jan 1st 1970.
  78
  79     @see wxDateTime::Now()
  80
  81     @header{wx/stopwatch.h}
  82 */
  83 long wxGetLocalTime();
  84
  85 /**
  86     Returns the number of milliseconds since local time 00:00:00 Jan 1st 1970.
  87
  88     @see wxDateTime::Now(), wxLongLong
  89
  90     @header{wx/stopwatch.h}
  91 */
  92 wxLongLong wxGetLocalTimeMillis();
  93
  94 /**
  95     Returns the number of seconds since GMT 00:00:00 Jan 1st 1970.
  96
  97     @see wxDateTime::Now()
  98
  99     @header{wx/stopwatch.h}
 100 */
 101 long wxGetUTCTime();
 102
 103 //@}
 104