>>Anybody have a technique for measuring the amount of time it takes a function to process?
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>>I tried the following ... but that give me total seconds and I need the that result converted to hours:minutes:seconds.
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>>Other Suggestions? Ideas?
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>>nStart = Seconds()
>>.
>>(my code)
>>.
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>>nStop = Seconds()
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>>nRunTime = nStop-nStart
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>>How to get nRunTime to look like HH:MM:SS??
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>>Help?
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>>Please and thanks.
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>? TTOC(DTOT(DATE())+nRunTime,2)

Practically could fit.
But apart from 12/24 hours setting, it's "set seconds" dependable. If process lasts more than 24 hours, the biggest value you could get would be 23:59:59.

* Assuming up to 99:59:59
? padl(int(nRuntime/3600),2,"0")+":"+;
  padl(int(nRuntime%3600/60),2,"0")+":"+;
  padl(nRuntime%60,6,"0")

* Or no milliseconds is needed
? padl(int(nRuntime/3600),2,"0")+":"+;
  padl(int(nRuntime%3600/60),2,"0")+":"+;
  padl(int(nRuntime%60),2,"0")

OTOH, your TTOC(,2) is a nice way to get time input from user :) Actually I use it combined with a time entry textbox + datetimepicker ActiveX. At textbox gotfocus, textbox sets itself to visible=.f. and sets focus to ActiveX (visible=.t.). That in turn sets textbox value to ttoc(,2) and visible=.t. at lostfocus (activex.visible=.f.). As if it were a Sparse=.t. control in a grid.
Cetin