Nice! I learn something every minute on this list --four heads are
better than one. I do believe that the clock is down to its essence
now. Every line does something essential, except displaying the
"Time" field to check its accuracy. I put the latest version in my
user space also (see3d).
For the next exercise: Students (Ben) should use the principles
learned here to make the clock chime (beep) the hour on the hour one
second between chimes (better add a checkmark button to turn off
chimes -- if you want to keep your sanity).
Dennis
On May 30, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
I had just finished swapping out my clunky send...in loop code for
something similar to yours when I checked mail and saw yours. I
took two steps:
put the long seconds into t
send in (something based on t - trunc(t)
Your method of the long seconds mod 1 is of course much better. But
you don't have to convert to ticks. Sending in a fraction of a
second works fine and reads better imho.
So here's what I have up now. This generally hits within a
thousandth of a second:
on openCard
setTime
end openCard
on setTime
put word 1 of the long time into T
put T && the long seconds into fld "time"
set the itemDelimiter to ":"
set the startangle of grc "hour" to 90 - (30 * item 1 of T) -
(item 2 of T) / 2
set the startangle of grc "minute" to 90 - (6 * item 2 of T) -
(item 3 of T) / 10
set the startangle of grc "second" to 90 - (6 * item 3 of T)
send "setTime" to me in (1 - (the long seconds mod 1)) seconds
end setTime
As before, the stack is available by executing this in the message
box:
go stack url "http://www.inspiredlogic.com/rev/clock.rev";
On May 30, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Dennis Brown wrote:
I love this clock example. Just so simple. You guys are great!
I could not resist seeing how the thinking was progressing and
took it to the next step. Fewer lines, more accuracy (I have
often noted that the simplest most elegant solutions take the most
time to create and the least time to understand). As Ben
suggested, this clock should be a standard example for new users
to look at. I will also add it to my revOnline user area (see3d)
as soon as today's connect problem is fixed.
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