TickCount

Get current system tick count

#include <Events.h> Event Manager

returns number of ticks since system startup

TickCount returns the number of ticks (1/60-th of a second or 16.66 ms

intervals) since the last time the system started.

Returns: a 32-bit long; the number of ticks since system startup.

Notes: TickCount is handy for comparing the current time against a value in the

when field of an EventRecord. You can also read the global variable Ticks

(at 0x16A) directly.

If you need to know the time in a format more conducive to screen display,

It is possible for the system to skip a tick or so, so be sure to avoid looking

for a particular tick. For instance, to delay one second, use:

long targetTick;

targetTick = Ticks+60; // one second from now

while( Ticks <= targetTick ) // avoid using: Ticks != targetTick

;

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