[Ro] 2005-11-29

No access to usenet, but I see a question about getting uptime in windows.

Use [ffidl] to hook into win32 api.


  ffidl::callout dll_GetTickCount {} long [ffidl::symbol kernel32.dll GetTickCount]

  (main) 2 % dll_GetTickCount
  555431843
  (main) 3 % dll_GetTickCount
  555433390


The way I do platform specific stuff in win32 is I search for VB ([Visual Basic]) people 
who have the same question I have, then I port their win32 calls to [ffidl].

From MSDN:

GetTickCount returns the number of milliseconds since Windows started, 
and it resets to zero (0) if Windows is run continuously for approximately 49 days.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q113325/

http://groups.google.ca/group/microsoft.public.vb.winapi/browse_thread/thread/8b064954e90e2ee5/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/gettickcount.asp
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