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Calculate milliseconds

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Calculate milliseconds

by  rfoye  Posted    (Edited  )
I don't know about you, but I get slowed down with timer calls where you have to specify the number of ticks or milliseconds. Here is a bit of code I wrote where you enter the Time Unit (Minutes, Seconds) and the number of those units that you want to wait.

Code: 
Public Function fMillis(lngVal As Long, stUnit As String) As Long
    ' This function allows you to quickly understand the time span
    ' involved, rather than having to enter the number of
    ' milliseconds or calculate how many seconds or minutes are
    ' represented by the millisecond value.
    '
    ' You can type the complete time unit, or an abbreviation:
    '   Minutes, Minute, Min, M, Seconds, Second, Sec, S
    ' Examples: fMillis(10, "Seconds"), fMillis(5,"Minutes")
    '
    ' If the clocking speed of your processor is different,
    ' you can change the constant cMilli to the number of ticks
    ' per second for your machine.
    
    Dim secs As Long
    Const cMilli As Long = 1000
    stUnit = Left$(stUnit, 1)
    Select Case stUnit
        Case "M"
            secs = lngVal * 60
        Case "S"
            secs = lngVal
        Case Else
            secs = 0
    End Select
    fMillis = secs * cMilli
End Function
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