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Visual Basic 6.0

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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Visual Basic 6.0
Dim socket As New ChilkatSocket

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

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

'  Read the whole number of seconds elapsed since StartTiming was called.
Debug.Print "Elapsed seconds: " & socket.ElapsedSeconds