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stm
Help with a clock
Oct 29th, 2009, 11:00am  
I'm sure theres actually a VERY simple explaination of how to do this, but I've only started using processing a few days ago, so this is all very new to me [its for a school project so I've been thrown in the deep end].

This is what I'm trying to do:
I'm making a clock which displays the time according to how people say it, eg "5 o'clock", "half past 4". I've been given the code for a "digital" clock so I pressume its just a task of adding if variables...

Any help would be very much appreciated!

PFont myfont;

void setup() {
// To create a font for use in processing, save your program and then use Tools/font
// The font file will be saved in the sketch's "data" directory
size (250,100);
  background(100,100,100);

myfont = loadFont("Arial-ItalicMT-48.vlw");
textFont(myfont);
}

void draw() {
 background(100,100,100);
 
 int s = second();
 int m = minute();
 int h = hour();
 
 text(h+":"+m+":"+s, 15, 50);
}
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ben_hem
Re: Help with a clock
Reply #1 - Oct 29th, 2009, 11:43am  
Right, for example you could start with:
if ((h==12) && (m==0)) text("noon", 15, 50);
else text(h+":"+m+":"+s, 15, 50);
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stm
Re: Help with a clock
Reply #2 - Oct 29th, 2009, 11:56am  
ah yes! that works. Thank you very much Ben!

Next problem is getting rid of the numbers so they dont show up...
Any ideas?
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ben_hem
Re: Help with a clock
Reply #3 - Oct 29th, 2009, 12:03pm  
Sure thing --

if you mean the text(h+":"+m+":"+s, 15, 50); -- those are your numbers, so you can just comment // that line out...

text(h+":"+m+":"+s, 15, 50); // is saying:
draw this text:  hour-number plus a colon, plus the minute number plus another colon, plus the seconds -- at location (15,50).
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stm
Re: Help with a clock
Reply #4 - Oct 29th, 2009, 12:12pm  
Ben, you are my saviour! I think I've gotten the jist of how this is going to work now.

Thank you very very much for your time!
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