I don't know what is happening here

I want to get the time since my computer was started. I use this function in vb

GetTickCount()

Now, in C++, I used this code to get the time since I started my computer.

long int ticktime;
ticktime = GetTickCount();

Until now, it works fine but now I want to show a messageBox like this:

MessageBox(NULL, ticktime, "The title", MB_OK);

It gives me an error on the variable "ticktime". What is the problem??:confused:

try this...

Code:

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char buffer[200];
wsprintf(buffer, "%i", ticktime);
MessageBox(NULL, buffer, "The title", MB_OK);

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Or the itoa function;

Code:

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char buffer[8];
MessageBox(hWnd, itoa(GetTickCount(), buffer, 8) , "Your Number", MB_OK);

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Or even my all-singing, all-dancing printf-stylie MsgBox function:

Code:

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#include <windows.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdarg.h>

int MsgBox(HWND hParent, int iFlags, TCHAR *pcCaption, TCHAR *pcText, ...) {
        va_list args;
        TCHAR pcBuf[1024];

        va_start(args, pcText);
        _vsntprintf(pcBuf, 1024, pcText, args);
        va_end(args);
        return MessageBox(hParent, pcBuf, pcCaption, iFlags);
}

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