Alarm Clock

[rlinsurf]

Hello, All }:|

I have tried to make a little test app for FMP's realtime functioning. It's an Alarm Clock.

I have 4 fields called Hour(Number, Global), Min(Number, Global), Sec(Number, Global), and Count (Number, Global).

I then set each field to the Hour, Minutes and Seconds for which I want the Alarm to sound. Say: 01, 24, 45.

I then have the following script:

Set Field [ AlarmClock::Count; 0]

Loop

     Exit Loop If [Get ( CurrentTime )  ≥  GetAsTime ( AlarmClock::Hour & ":" & AlarmClock::Min & ":"  & AlarmClock::Min)]

End Loop

Loop

     Set Field [AlarmClock::Count; AlarmClock::Count + 1]

     Exit Loop If [ AlarmClock::Count = 10 ]

     Beep

End Loop

This script never succeeds, but just runs endlessly.

I'm obviously missing a basic principle of working with Time fields. Can someone tell me why this isn't working?

Thanks again :

All My Best,

Jeffrey

Edited October 28, 2006 by Guest

[jteich]

It is a bad idea to use this expression to get a time value, use

Time ( hours ; minutes ; seconds )

instead

-jens

[rlinsurf]

That's what I tried first. The only problem there as I see it, is that Time doesn't specifically refer to the current time, but to any amount of time. So when it failed, I figured that was why and switched to GetAsTime.

[jteich]

I didn't make my point clear enough. It should be

Time ( AlarmClock::Hour ; AlarmClock::Min ; AlarmClock::Sec)

 



instead of

GetAsTime ( AlarmClock::Hour & ":" & AlarmClock::Min & ":"  & AlarmClock::Min)]

Get( CurrentTime ) remains untouched.

-jens

[comment]

The Time() function IS more appropriate here. Nevertheless, it should work with GetAsTime() as well, so that's not the reason why it failed.

Is it possible that it did NOT fail? Your original post mistakenly uses minutes instead of seconds.