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[David McFarlane]

Nikos,

>does anybody know an eprime function equivalent to the MATLAB tic 
>toc functions?
>
>I need to create a loop that lasts for 1 second while the 
>Serial.WriteString method is called and don't know how!
>
>Below is a code that worked for me but I think there's a better way:
>
>While i <161
>  Serial.WriteString EnableRC
>  i = i +1
>Wend

You  probably want to use the Sleep() statement.  If you only need to 
call Serial.WriteString once and then wait for 1 second, do this,

Serial.WriteString EnableRC
Sleep(1000)

If however you really mean to repeatedly write the Serial.WriteString 
for a period of one second then you'd be better off using the 
Clock.Read method, like this,

Dim tStop as Long
tStop = Clock.Read + 1000
Do
     Serial.WriteString EnableRC
Loop Until (Clock.Read >= tStop)

Regards,
-- David

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David McFarlane, Systems Designer
Dept. Psychology, Michigan State University
mcfarla9 at msu.edu    www.msu.edu/~mcfarla9
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