elapsed time? (simple question)

[kirkland4]

What I'm trying to do with elapsed time is so simple (or so I thought) yet I can't seem to figure out how to do it.

All I want is to keep track of the time elapsed since the VI is executed and then output that time (in seconds or minutes or whatever) as some sort of string or double.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[kasra]

Use "Tick Count (ms)" function which is placed in the "Time and Dialog" functions palette, twice. Place one of the mentioned funtion before executing your program and another one after the execution is finished, then simply subtract the output of the second tick count to the first one. The result will be the execution time of your program in milliseconds.

Try the above and the problem will be solved!

Kasra

[chilly_charly]

Another solution is to use the get date/time in seconds vi.
This will avoid wrap around problems over long runs

Message Edité par chilly charly le 12-30-2005 02:21 AM