Note: This is a work in progress and many formatting issues have been fixed. Read more about the project on the home page.

ticks

the ticks

Value returned: an integer equal to the number of ticks since the Macintosh was turned on or restarted. (One tick equals one-sixtieth of a second.)

Demo Script

on ticksDemo

  put 0 into total

  put the ticks into startTicks

  repeat with number = 1 to 100

    set cursor to busy

    add number to total

  end repeat

  put the ticks - startTicks into totalTime

  answer "The sum of numbers 1 to 100 is" && total & return &¬

  "It took" && totalTime && "ticks to figure out."

end ticksDemo