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VB and the development of wizards / Mach3 MacroPump Get Current Time in Milliseconds

« on: January 30, 2016, 11:00:15 PM »

I'm running a Mach3 MacroPump script that gets the current time and positions for the x and y axis, and then appends this info to a text file. I need the time resolution to be in milliseconds, but can't find a way to get anything better than seconds with the Cypress Enable functions. Does anyone know a way to do this? It seems like Visual Basic has millisecond formatting for its time fetching functions, but I can't get any of these functions to work in the MacroPump, and Cypress Enable's Time(Now) function that I am currently using doesn't seem to accept any millisecond formatting parameters. Here is my current code for reference:

  Dim t As String                            
  Dim x As Double
  Dim y As Double
  Open "C:\Mach3\macros\Dual_Axis_Test_Stand\timePositionLog.txt" For Append As #1
    t = Time(Now)
    x = GetDRO(0)
    y = GetDRO(1)
    Print #1, t
    Print #1, x
    Print #1, y
  Close #1