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[3.7.9] Get Current SystemTime

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• Introduction
• Example

Introduction

Extended plug-in interface IComponentHandler for an edit controller, IComponentHandlerSystemTime allows the plug-in to ask for the current systemTime (this should be the same kind of time reference than the one used in ProcessContext::systemTime, this one is not compensated like the one of the ProcessContext).

• [host imp]
• [extends IComponentHandler]
• [released: 3.7.9]
• [optional]

Example

//--------------------------------------
// we are in the editcontroller:
  
int64 systemTime = 0;

if (auto handlerSystemTime = Steinberg::U::cast<IComponentHandlerSystemTime> (componentHandler))
    handlerSystemTime->getSystemTime (systemTime);