Measuring ?elapsed? time

ok I am making a program that will allow someone to skip to a certain part of an audio file without having to listen to the whole thing to get there, like a bible chapter has many verses, so in order to get to the verse you are looking for I have to create a program that while the audio runs I press, (lets say - enter) everytime a new verse starts. When I press enter I want to log the number of milliseconds that verse was then the next verse log the number of milliseconds...

All I need to know how to do is set up a mostly accurate timing system so I can retreive the milliseconds...

Take a look at the Time code using GetTickCount link in my signature.

i did, what does that return? milliseconds?

Yes.

oh ok it works good, i did notice when I refreshed the milliseconds every second using a timer it was like 1 or 2 milliseconds off each time, now do you think that is the timers fault or the gettickcount?

The timer is only accurate to about 40ms.

Use the QueryPerformanceCounter API as its more accurate then GetTickCount. :)

ok the reason i ask is because i am going to be timming very long audio and if down the road it was a second off, that would be bad... But looks like it should work, thanks alot!
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Originally Posted by RobDog888

Use the QueryPerformanceCounter API as its more accurate then GetTickCount. :)

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Ok can you help? How would I? If you dont mind assisting...

Sorry, I am only checking in before heading out for the morning/day. I remembered the API from Jacob Roman, I think it was, that used it to prove that the "With" block vb function as slower then the fully qualified object. There should be some code examples already on the forums using it but here is the example from allapi.net - http://www.allapi.net/apilist/QueryP...eCounter.shtml

k thanks, i actually found that same code here on the forums also, I look into it...