various user interface related updates

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/timer.h b/src/core/timer.h
index 9e172bf..b878875 100644
--- a/src/core/timer.h
+++ b/src/core/timer.h
@@ -28,11 +28,14 @@ public:
  	 */
 	void mark();
 
-	/*! return the time elapsed since the last mark
+	/*! return the time elapsed since the last mark, in seconds
 	 * @see mark()
 	 */
 	float elapsed();
 
+	/// return timestamp since last mark, in microseconds
+	unsigned long timestamp();
+
 private:
 	float 				timer_elapsed;
 	struct timezone 		timer_tz;