hackedteam/rcs-console

/* 
 * The MIT License
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2007 The SixDegrees Project Team
 * (Jason Bellone, Juan Rodriguez, Segolene de Basquiat, Daniel Lang).
 * 
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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package org.un.cava.birdeye.ravis.utils {
    
    import flash.utils.getTimer;

    /**
     * This is a simple class to provide a timer function.
     * 
     * @author Nitin Lamba
     * */
    public class StopWatch {

    protected var prevTime:uint;
        
    /**
     * Starts the timer.
     */
        public function startTimer():void {
      prevTime = getTimer();
    }
        
    /**
     * Stops the timer and returns the 
     * time elapsed since last start timer call.
     * @return elapsed time
     */
    public function stopTimer():uint {
      var curTime:uint = getTimer();
      return curTime - prevTime;
        }
  }
}