Help with Lib "kernel32" 1

[labanTek]

Hi all I was observing the following code for a countdown timer, can anyone explain how does importing this Lib "kernel32" library into the function, cause an initial time to be returned? I would like to find out more about is contained within these libraries. Part of the code is below.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Option Compare Database
Option Explicit

Dim TotalElapsedMilliSec As Long
Dim StartTickCount As Long
Private Declare Function GetTickCount Lib "kernel32" () As Long


Private Sub btnStartStop_Click()
If Me.TimerInterval = 0 Then
StartTickCount = GetTickCount()

 

[RoyVidar]

GetTickCount is a Windows API, which is found in the kernel32.dll library, I think.

For more info, you could probably have a look at

http://www.mentalis.org/index2.shtml,

or perhaps forum711 or forum713 - also look at some of the handy wrappers for APIs found at

http://www.mvps.org/access/api/index.html

Roy-Vidar

 

[labanTek]

Thanks so much Roy-Vidar the first link was most useful, it opened a whole new window of API programming to me. Thanks again.