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>Chapter 13. Time</H1
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>&nbsp;--&nbsp;Get the number of milliseconds since the SDL library initialization.</DT
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>SDL provides several cross-platform functions for dealing with time.
It provides a way to get the current time, a way to wait a little while,
and a simple timer mechanism.  These functions give you two ways of moving an
object every x milliseconds:

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>Use a timer callback function.  This may have the bad effect that it runs in a seperate thread or uses alarm signals, but it's easier to implement.</P
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>Or you can get the number of milliseconds passed, and move the object if, for example, 30 ms passed.</P
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