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Measure Elapsed Time with the Convenience Timer

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Demonstrates Socket.StartTiming, which starts or restarts the object's convenience timer. The ElapsedSeconds property then reports the whole number of seconds since the call.

Background. This timer is a convenience for measuring durations and does not affect connection behavior or timeouts.

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LOCAL loSocket

loSocket = CreateObject('Chilkat.Socket')

*  Start (or restart) the object's convenience timer.
loSocket.StartTiming()

*  Perform some work.  (Here the thread simply sleeps to let time pass.)
loSocket.SleepMs(1500)

*  Read the whole number of seconds elapsed since StartTiming was called.
? "Elapsed seconds: " + STR(loSocket.ElapsedSeconds)

RELEASE loSocket