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<concept xml:lang="en" id="GUID-5219F0F7-4BFA-5B1B-999C-FBE4E2228588"><title>How to create an RTimer</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody><p>The following example code demonstrates how to set up an <codeph>RTimer</codeph>. </p> <ul><li id="GUID-2C0AB662-532A-54BF-804C-0213C261FD0C"><p>Create the <codeph>RTimer</codeph> object</p> </li> <li id="GUID-1818F3A0-C31F-539D-A79D-5577C1AD01B4"><p>Call <codeph>CreateLocal()</codeph> on the timer object</p> </li> <li id="GUID-465F52FC-EE93-59BC-A7C2-1FD36243FE26"><p>Provide a <codeph>TRequestStatus</codeph> request.</p> </li> </ul> <codeblock id="GUID-26C4BA27-CB9B-5051-A680-605DD21224EC" xml:space="preserve">
RTimer timer; 
TRequestStatus timerStatus; // Request status associated with timer
timer.CreateLocal();        // Create for this thread
...                         // Now add code to use the timer</codeblock> <section><title>Note </title> <ul><li id="GUID-A0545164-C20D-59CF-A2AC-5EC1DE32A412"><p>The timer is always thread-relative.</p> </li> </ul> </section> </conbody></concept>