Show the day and time

[Juniare]

I want my movie to show the day and time in a text field. And if the time is morning, I want my background picture to be of a morning sky, and afternoon (sunset), a sunset sky, then night, a night sky. So how can I do this?

 

[Juniare]

Another Question:

How do I stream Mp3s from my webpage to the movie, and have a load bar also...I've been trying to do that for the longest.

And, what should I use to make 3D games. (the graphics).
Some sort of 3D software like Maya, or something. Or do I have to use Lingo? Cause if so, I'll never get it done.

 

[kennethkawamoto]

Director can obtain the date and time info from the system using

date

and

time

(!) Attaching the following behavior to a text sprite will display the date and time:

--
property spriteNum

on enterFrame me
  sprite(spriteNum).member.text = the long date && the long time
end enterFrame
--

Instead of

the long date

, you can also use

the date, the abbreviated (abbrev, abbr) date, the short date

. They all have different display format. (Same for

the time

)

Thus, you can determine the time of the day by using

the time

. But you have to be careful since the time format varies from country to country, platform to platform, machine to machine…

Something like this should work wherever you are:

--
hourNow = (the time).char[1..(offset(":", the time) - 1)]
if not((the time) contains "PM") then
   if hourNow > 4 and hourNow < 11 then
	sprite(backGroundSpriteNum).member = member(&quot;morningBackground&quot;)
   end if
end if
--