mstimer.h File Reference

Tracks milliseconds elapsed in another cog. This is part of a tutorial on adding a Simple Library to the project. More...

#include "simpletools.h"

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Functions
int	mstime_start ()
	Start the millisecond timer.
void	mstime_stop ()
	Stop the millisecond timer and free up a cog.
int	mstime_get ()
	Get milliseconds since call to start.
void	mstime_reset ()
	Reset the millisecond time elapsed to zero.
void	mstime_set (int newTime)
	Set the millisecond timer.

Detailed Description

Tracks milliseconds elapsed in another cog. This is part of a tutorial on adding a Simple Library to the project.

Author

Andy Lindsay

Version

0.86

Copyright

Copyright (C) Parallax, Inc. 2013. All Rights MIT Licensed.

Core Usage

A call to mstime_start will launch 1 additional core. Additional calls to mstime_start will only shut down and then re-launch the process, but will not take additional cores.

Memory Models

Use with CMM or LMM.

Version

0.5

Help Improve this Library

Please submit bug reports, suggestions, and improvements to this code to edito.nosp@m.r@pa.nosp@m.ralla.nosp@m.x.co.nosp@m.m.

Function Documentation

int mstime_get

(

)

Get milliseconds since call to start.

Returns

Number of milliseconds elapsed.

void mstime_set

(

int

newTime

)

Set the millisecond timer.

Parameters

newTime

New millisecond time value that timer should start counting from.

int mstime_start

(

)

Start the millisecond timer.

Returns

Nonzero if success, 0 if no cogs available.