Display System-Time in Projection

[Michel H]

Hi,

I'm a total newbie to QLab and have to use it for a university project (and I really like it as far as I know it). The director want to have a large digital clock in 24 hour format on the screens that simply show the current time (aka mac system time).

Is there an easy way to do this? I thought about an applescript cue changing the text of a titles cue to the time in "hh:mm" format, but my knowledge about applescript is very limited.

Does someone have a solution for this?

[luckydave]

On May 4, 2015 at 2:32:25 PM, Michel H (michel...@gmail.com) wrote:

I'm a total newbie to QLab and have to use it for a university project (and I really like it as far as I know it). The director want to have a large digital clock in 24 hour format on the screens that simply show the current time (aka mac system time).

Is there an easy way to do this? I thought about an applescript cue changing the text of a titles cue to the time in "hh:mm" format, but my knowledge about applescript is very limited.

This gives you an analog clock, but there's AppleScript in the example that you could modify to use with a Titles cue instead of animating still images as it currently does:

http://qlabcookbook.com/2010/01/06/real-time-clock/

-- 
luckydave

[micpool]

Here's the digital version

Mic

[luckydave]

Here's a slight modication with just the time, like a digital watch, which is a pretty neat idea.

set hourstring to hours of (current date)

if hourstring > 11 then

set hourstring to hourstring - 12

end if

if hourstring < 10 then

set hourstring to "0" & (hourstring as text)

end if

set minutestring to minutes of (current date)

if minutestring < 10 then

set minutestring to "0" & (minutestring as text)

end if

set secondstring to seconds of (current date)

if secondstring < 10 then

set secondstring to "0" & (secondstring as text)

end if

set theTimeString to hourstring & ":" & minutestring & ":" & secondstring

tell application id "com.figure53.qlab.3" to tell front workspace

set the text of cue "TIME" to theTimeString

end tell

-- 
luckydave

On May 4, 2015 at 2:48:45 PM, micpool (m...@micpool.com) wrote:

Here's the digital version

Mic

[Rich Walsh]

Or just:

set theTimeString to do shell script "date '+%T'"

tell application id "com.figure53.qlab.3" to tell front workspace

set the text of cue "TIME" to theTimeString

end tell

Rich

[Michel H]

Thank you very much for this solutions! QLab has the best community of any tool I know!

[micpool]

Thanks Rich, That's very neat.

Just to complete the thread it's probably worth posting all the Format sequences for Date in case anyone else wants to do variants of this in the future.

Mic

DATE(1)				 User Commands			       DATE(1)

NAME
       date - print or set the system date and time

SYNOPSIS
       date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
       date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]

DESCRIPTION
       Display the current time in the given FORMAT, or set the system date.

       -d, --date=STRING
	      display time described by STRING, not 'now'

       -f, --file=DATEFILE
	      like --date once for each line of DATEFILE

       -r, --reference=FILE
	      display the last modification time of FILE

       -R, --rfc-2822
	      output date and time in RFC 2822 format

       --rfc-3339=TIMESPEC
	      output date and time in RFC 3339 format.	TIMESPEC='date', 'sec-
	      onds', or 'ns' for date and time to the indicated precision.

       -s, --set=STRING
	      set time described by STRING

       -u, --utc, --universal
	      print or set Coordinated Universal Time

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

       FORMAT controls the output.  The only valid option for the second  form
       specifies Coordinated Universal Time.  Interpreted sequences are:

       %%     a literal %

       %a     locale's abbreviated weekday name (e.g., Sun)

       %A     locale's full weekday name (e.g., Sunday)

       %b     locale's abbreviated month name (e.g., Jan)

       %B     locale's full month name (e.g., January)

       %c     locale's date and time (e.g., Thu Mar  3 23:05:25 2005)

       %C     century; like %Y, except omit last two digits (e.g., 21)

       %d     day of month (e.g, 01)

       %D     date; same as %m/%d/%y

       %e     day of month, space padded; same as %_d

       %F     full date; same as %Y-%m-%d

       %g     last two digits of year of ISO week number (see %G)

       %G     year of ISO week number (see %V); normally useful only with %V

       %h     same as %b

       %H     hour (00..23)

       %I     hour (01..12)

       %j     day of year (001..366)

       %k     hour ( 0..23)

       %l     hour ( 1..12)

       %m     month (01..12)

       %M     minute (00..59)

       %n     a newline

       %N     nanoseconds (000000000..999999999)

       %p     locale's equivalent of either AM or PM; blank if not known

       %P     like %p, but lower case

       %r     locale's 12-hour clock time (e.g., 11:11:04 PM)

       %R     24-hour hour and minute; same as %H:%M

       %s     seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

       %S     second (00..60)

       %t     a tab

       %T     time; same as %H:%M:%S

       %u     day of week (1..7); 1 is Monday

       %U     week number of year, with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)

       %V     ISO week number, with Monday as first day of week (01..53)

       %w     day of week (0..6); 0 is Sunday

       %W     week number of year, with Monday as first day of week (00..53)

       %x     locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)

       %X     locale's time representation (e.g., 23:13:48)

       %y     last two digits of year (00..99)

       %Y     year

       %z     +hhmm numeric timezone (e.g., -0400)

       %:z    +hh:mm numeric timezone (e.g., -04:00)

       %::z   +hh:mm:ss numeric time zone (e.g., -04:00:00)

       %:::z  numeric  time  zone  with	 :  to necessary precision (e.g., -04,
	      +05:30)

       %Z     alphabetic time zone abbreviation (e.g., EDT)

       By default, date	 pads  numeric	fields	with  zeroes.	The  following
       optional flags may follow '%':

	      - (hyphen) do not pad the field _ (underscore) pad with spaces 0
	      (zero) pad with zeros ^ use upper case if possible #  use	 oppo-
	      site case if possible

       After  any  flags  comes	 an optional field width, as a decimal number;
       then an optional modifier, which is either E to use the locale's alter-
       nate  representations  if available, or O to use the locale's alternate
       numeric symbols if available.

ENVIRONMENT
       TZ     Specifies the timezone, unless overridden by command line param-
	      eters.  If neither is specified, the setting from /etc/localtime
	      is used.

AUTHOR
       Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <bug-co...@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software.  You may redistribute copies  of	it  under  the
       terms	   of	    the	     GNU      General	   Public      License
       <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.	There is NO WARRANTY,  to  the
       extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       The  full documentation for date is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
       the info and date programs are properly installed  at  your  site,  the
       command

	      info date

       should give you access to the complete manual.

date 5.97			  March 2012			       DATE(1)

[talkingtobrian]

This is, once again, an excellent and useful thread!

I have just built something using this thread - a full screen clock, with just the hour and minute. (the second display can distract some speakers - "it's like a time bomb".  Anyway, using Rick's code and Mic's library, here is what I have:

set theTimeString to do shell script "date '+%l:%M'"

tell application id "com.figure53.qlab.3" to tell front workspace

set the text of cue "TIME" to theTimeString

end tell

The targeted Title cue is set with a font size of 300 and display is full screen. (smaller values, like 20, work, but there is heavy pixelation as the font is stretched)

The problem is that I was getting a space in front of the resulting text (It's currently 9:55 over here) which pushes the whole thing to the right. Should anyone else encounter this in the future, it's because the hour in this example is in two-digit format. So since there is no "1" in "9:55" the first character in the hour is a space.

[Rich Walsh]

Did you read this bit:

By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes. The following optional flags may follow '%':

     - (hyphen) do not pad the field _ (underscore) pad with spaces 0

     (zero) pad with zeros ^ use upper case if possible # use oppo-

     site case if possible

This will give you 12-hour time with no leading spaces:

do shell script "date '+%-l:%M %p'"

However, it will still jump around on screen unless you use a fixed-width font and right-align it.

Rich

[ufelski]

Hi all, 

I am trying to mimic an iPhone screen (see attachment). How can I display the real time with my custom text settings.?

Any help would be very appreciated!!!

[micpool]

The programming to update the text fields is contained in  this post in this thread

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qlab/sSj7JCeOvYs/9Wqqpgv4_RIJ

In your case you will want  2 text cues numbered TIME and DATE

and this script

tell application id "com.figure53.QLab.4" to tell front workspace

set the text of cue "TIME" to do shell script "date '+%H:%M'"

set the text of cue "DATE" to do shell script "date '+%A %d %B'"

end tell

QLab 4 workspace attached

Mic

[ufelski]

PERFECT !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!