'get time' ---> Timeline

[pokko]

Hi, I wanna make some sort of 'horizontal clock': Picture a bar from 0-24 where the actual time sets the position on the bar.

Example: if its 12:00h the indicator on the bar is in the middle, at 23:00 it's almost at the end when it reaches 24:00 the indicator starts over again.

I want to make a bar for the hours and 1 for the minutes.

Can anyone help me with some actionscript to set this up?

Thanks!

[Sualdam]

Assuming you have your hours and minutes in two variables 'myHour' and 'myMin'...

The trick would be to convert each of those into a percentage and use that to scale a bar.

For the hours, myHours = 0 to 23, so 23 equals the bar at 100%.

Draw a horizontal bar and turn it into a movie clip. Size it so that it corresponds to the maximum size (24:00), and give it an instance name ('barHour').

You can set the scale of the bar movie clip to 50% (for example)using:

setProperty("barHour",_xscale,50);

So to alter it dynamically, you could use:

setProperty("barHour",_xscale,(myHour/23*100));

That ought to work. And just do the same for the minutes bar.

Oh, and just change _xscale to _yscale for a vertical bar.

You could combine the bars inside a movie clip and use onClipEvent to have them refresh every frame cycle.

[pokko]

Tnx,

But what i try to accomplish is a bar (or timeline) with an indicator:

example:
02:00 would look like this

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12:00 like this

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I can build that with keyframes with actionscript wich point to wich keyframe is should play.

[Sualdam]

OK. That wasn't clear, but I understand what you mean.

It is still the same, more or less, to the way I described - except the position of the clip is set instead of the scale.

Create a movie clip that corresponds to your indicator.

For the sake of argument, let's say you want to move it between 0 pixels and 250 pixels on the x axis for 0 - 23 hours.

setProperty("barHour",_x,(myHour/23*250));

Do the same kind of thing for the minutes hand.

And put them all inside movie clips, because then you really can design them to work from 0 pixels without having to worry whereabouts on screen they are placed.