Time entry

[Josh Mellicker]

Here is a text entry field so that a user can enter a time in a field in a "shorthand" and get a full, properly formatted date out of it.

Here are some examples:

enter this = get this

1 = 1:00 PM
12 = 12:00 PM
123 = 1:23 PM
1234 = 12:34 PM

add an "a" at the end for am, like:

1a = 1:00 AM


We have been using this for a few years and everyone really likes it, it seems intuitive and faster than any other method of entering a time.


field script:

   ON enterInField
       convertTime
   END enterInField

   ON returnInField
       convertTime
   END returnInField

   ON closeField
       convertTime
   END closeField


put this somewhere in the message path:

   ON convertTime
       put the text of the target into t
       IF (char -1 to -2 of t = "am") OR (char -1 of t = "a") THEN
           put "AM" into ampm
       ELSE
           put "PM" into ampm
       END IF
       REPEAT for each char c in t
           IF c is a number THEN put c after t2
       END REPEAT

       SWITCH
       CASE the number of chars of t2 < 3
           put ":00" after t2
           break
       CASE the number of chars of t2 = 3
           put char 1 of t2 & ":" & char 2 to 3 of t2 into t2
           break
       CASE the number of chars of t2 = 4
           put char 1 to 2 of t2 & ":" & char 3 to 4 of t2 into t2
           break
       END SWITCH
       put space & ampm after t2
       put t2 into the target
   END convertTime



On Feb 22, 2010, at 10:21 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> Thanks Scott.  The clock face is certainly the most familiar for users and does take up less real estate.  I haven't entirely discounted it but I feel it doesn't lend itself very well to time entry on a computer.  It really needs two hands for it to be the familiar clock face we're all used to (which I'm guessing would complicate the code quite a bit) and clock faces in general don't differentiate between AM and PM times.  I guess that's why I'm leaning more towards the slider approach - certainly less familiar than a clock face but feels very comfortable nonetheless and I think I can find the real estate.  I'll probably implement it as a small button (maybe looking like a clock!) that will popup a window with the sliders in it.
> 
> Either way, thanks a lot for the code.
> 
> Pete Haworth
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 22, 2010, at 10:00 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
> 
>> From: Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com>
>> Subject: Re: Time entry
>> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>> Message-ID: <DA31EFFE-AB54-4F3B-B216-ABFA4A60C516 at tactilemedia.com>
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>> 
>> Hi Pete:
>> 
>> FWIW, if you have a small amount of real estate for the time entry
>> control, a clock face is a lot more efficient than a slider.
>> Regardless, yes 48 is the number of 15 minute intervals.  The other
>> thing you may need to adjust is the width of the slider base graphic
>> -- it's currently wide enough to evenly accommodate tick marks for the 48 intervals.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Scott Rossi
>> Creative Director
>> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
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