(This is the documentation for SDL3, which is under heavy development and the API is changing! SDL2 is the current stable version!)

SDL_GetTicks

Get the number of milliseconds since SDL library initialization.

Header File

Defined in <SDL3/SDL_timer.h>

Syntax

Uint64 SDL_GetTicks(void);

Return Value

Returns an unsigned 64-bit value representing the number of milliseconds since the SDL library initialized.

Version

This function is available since SDL 3.0.0.

Code Examples

int variable;
SDL_bool quit = SDL_FALSE;
unsigned int lastTime = 0, currentTime;
while (!quit) {
  // do stuff
  // ...

  // Print a report once per second
  currentTime = SDL_GetTicks();
  if (currentTime > lastTime + 1000) {
    printf("Report: %d\n", variable);
    lastTime = currentTime;
  }
}

CategoryAPI, CategoryAPIFunction, CategoryTimer