Hey Pascal Thanks very much for your offer. I am going to work on the networking part first - that seems trickiest - and then come back to the actual clock. In the meantime, I will download your clock and see what I can learn from you regarding morphs.
Cheers Andy On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 06:34, <pascal.voll...@nexgo.de> wrote: > Hi Andy, > > if I can help for the presentation part (not for the networking part), let > me know. I've built an analog clock with some additional features (see > www.squeaksource.com/AnalogClock). One feature is to show a specific > duration (with start and stop time) as a morph embedded in the clock's dial. > When the event has started I shrink its morph each minute. When stop time is > reached the morph disappears. Right now this behavior is triggered by > dropping an iCal-information on the clock. > > Kind regards, > Pascal > > > ----- Original Nachricht ---- > Von: Andy Burnett <andy.burn...@knowinnovation.com> > An: Squeak list <beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org> > Datum: 06.11.2009 00:11 > Betreff: [Newbies] Building a remote count down clock > > > Hello > > I want to build a count down clock that will be used for presenters at an > > upcoming conference. The important point is that the clock needs to be > > started and stopped by the 'admin' guy, but displayed on one or more > > screens > > for the speaker. > > > > My initial thought was to do it in seaside. However, I then wondered > > whether > > it would be better to build it all in Squeak. The benefit of the Squeak > > approach (I am guessing) is that I could somehow broadcast to the > listening > > images that I wanted them to start/stop, rather than have them polling > > every > > second. Obviously, the app is tiny, so in practical terms it doesn't > matter > > either way, but I am now curious about how I might communicate the > > start/stop messages over the network to the images. Is this relatively > > easy > > in Squeak? > > > > cheers > > Andy > > > > > > -------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Beginners mailing list > > Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org > > http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners > > > > Pascal Vollmer > Email: pascal.voll...@ieee.org > > Jetzt NEU: Do it youself E-Cards bei Arcor.de! > Stellen Sie Ihr eigenes Unikat zusammen und machen Sie dem Empfänger eine > ganz persönliche Freude! > E-Card Marke Eigenbau: HIER KLICKEN: http://www.arcor.de/rd/footer.ecard >
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