Get elapsed time, B.6.3 get elapsed time – Nematron Pointe Controller User Manual

Page 334

Advertising
background image

Appendix B: Flow Chart Command Reference

Pointe Controller User Guide

332

To configure the Destination String parameter, click the

button to

open a standard

Select String Tag

dialog.

NOTE: If the defined length of the Destination String is not long enough
to receive the result of the command, then the output will be truncated.
No error will be generated.

B.6.3 Get Elapsed Time

This command can be selected from the

Date/Time commands

list.

When used in a Flow Chart, the Get Elapsed Time command retrieves the total
time elapsed, in milliseconds, since the Pointe Controller unit was last powered
on. The Milliseconds value is returned as a 32-bit unsigned integer.

Parameters for this command include:

Milliseconds Tag – The Logic Memory tag to which the number of

milliseconds will be written. The tag should be a 32-bit Unsigned Input,
Memory, or Output tag.

To configure the Milliseconds Tag parameter, click the

button to open

a standard

Select Tag

dialog.

Advertising