>>>Anybody have a technique for measuring the amount of time it takes a function to process?
>>>
>>>I tried the following ... but that give me total seconds and I need the that result converted to hours:minutes:seconds.
>>>
>>>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??
>>>
>>>Help?
>>>
>>>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.

Cetin:

Did you see my code for more than 24 hours?
SET HOURS TO 24
dBase = DATE() && How's that for a variable name! ;)
tEnd = DTOT(dBase) + 87036 && Some elapsed time more than 1 day
?'Days:',TTOD(tEnd)-dBase,TTOC(tEnd,2)

AFAIK, the # of seconds is only limited by how big a single number can be (14 digits?). Well, with 14 digits of 9, that's 1,157,407,407 days and 9+ hours. That should be more than enough time tracking capabilities. :) And by changing, dBase to tBase (DATETIME) then you can just as easily measure elapsed time starting at any given second:

SET HOURS TO 24
tBase = DATETIME()
tEnd = tBase + 1000000 && Some elapsed time more than 1 day
?'Days:',TTOD(tEnd)-TTOD(tBase),TTOC(tEnd,2)


>

* 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

I'll have to try your time textbox/Active-X trick. Do you already have a class for it? I'd like to see it if you do. Thanks!