here is the CLOCKFACE script...coded in 3 MINUTES...17 LINES of CODE

[Thomas McGrath III]

I have not been able to get REV on the MAC to Beep. Can anyone else get 
the beep to work?

Thanks

Tom

On May 30, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Dennis Brown wrote:

> 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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