Method

GLibTimerelapsed

Declaration 

gdouble
g_timer_elapsed (
  GTimer* timer,
  gulong* microseconds
)

Description

If timer has been started but not stopped, obtains the time since the timer was started. If timer has been stopped, obtains the elapsed time between the time it was started and the time it was stopped. The return value is the number of seconds elapsed, including any fractional part. The microseconds out parameter is essentially useless.

Parameters

microseconds

Type: gulong*

Return location for the fractional part of seconds elapsed, in microseconds (that is, the total number of microseconds elapsed, modulo 1000000), or NULL.

The data is owned by the caller of the function.

Return value

Type: gdouble

Seconds elapsed as a floating point value, including any fractional part.