Stopwatch without pausing the program

I was wondering how to make a stopwatch which recorded time, but did not actually stop the program. The wait function actually waits at that part of the program, and my idea was to take the time stamp at the beginning and then the timestamp at the end and see the difference, but I had trouble formatting the timestamp to ashow me ms, which I need. Is there any other VI which does this?
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I am attaching a stopwatch VI I just made. It has the 'Lap' function built into it as well.
You can put the main execution code in the execution 'while' loop. This way, there would be no pause or delay in the stop watch or the your main program. You can even control the execution of the main program by passing some control parameter from the stopwatch loop to the main loop.
Hope this helps.
Cheers!!!!
Message Edited by Mani's World on 12-28-2008 02:32 PM
Attachments:
Stopwatch.vi ‏86 KB

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