laurenquantrell@hotmail.com (Lauren Quantrell) wrote in message news:<47e5bd72.0311030703.59cfcca4@posting.google. com>...[color=blue]
> Is there as simple way to time a process (down to the ms) while
> running Access2000 VBA code? I want to test the time taken to run
> various functions.[/color]
use GetTickCount... from
www.mvps.org/vbnet
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Private Declare Function GetTickCount Lib "kernel32" () As Long
Private tstart As Single
Private Enum ElapsedTimeType
ttMilliseconds = 1
ttSeconds = 2
ttMinutes = 3
End Enum
Private Function GetElapsedTime(dwTimeType As ElapsedTimeType) As Single
Dim divisor As Long
Select Case dwTimeType
Case ttMilliseconds: divisor = 1
Case ttSeconds: divisor = 1000
Case ttMinutes: divisor = 60000
End Select
GetElapsedTime = (GetTickCount() - tstart) / divisor
End Function
Private Sub Form_Load()
'Assign the current tick count
'as the tick start point. Failure
'to do this will return the number
'of ticks since Windows was last
'rebooted. (Note: elapsed time is
'stored as a DWORD value in Windows.
'Therefore, the time will wrap around
'to zero if the system is run continuously
'for 49.7 days. If a higher resolution
'timer is required, use a multimedia
'or high-resolution timer.
tstart = GetTickCount()
End Sub
