Taking time

Authoring Inform 7
1

I am wondering if I could use Real Date and Time by Ron Newcomb to take the time of a players computer, and then make the status line say if it is morning, afternoon ect depending on the current time on the gaming device.

2

Why wouldn’t you be able to do that? It seems like an entirely straightforward application of the extension.

3

The only caveat is that not all interpreters support that feature so you’d need to take that possibility into account.

4

I’m busy trying to get this to work. Here is the basic but I have two problems:

To say day cycle:
if the player’s time is 7:30;
say “Hello”.

When play begins:
now the right hand status line is “[Day cycle].”

First-if the player’s time is doesn’t work and I’m not sure how to do it.
Second-If this code DID work I would only be able to do it with a single time, is there a way to make it work between two certain times.

And if I’m completely of the rails here how should I do this?

5

First, you need to get the colons and semicolons in the right places.
Second, you need to use Anglochrone times of day (with the PM’s and AM’s).

To say day cycle: if the player's time is greater than 4:59 AM and the player's time is less than 10:00 AM: say "Good morning, world!".

You use a colon after the name of the phrase or rule etc. that you are defining.

To say day cycle:

You use a colon after a line that begins with an “if”, “otherwise”, “else”, “unless”, “while”, or “repeat”.

	if the player's time is greater than 4:59 AM and the player's time is less than 10:00 AM:

You use semicolons elsewhere (i.e. after each line in a block of code).

		say "Err ...";
		say line break;
		now the printed name of the player is "Mr Minit";
		say "Good morning, world!";

For the very last and final line in the definition of a phrase or rule, use a full stop (or a semicolon followed by a blank line).

		say "Good morning, world!".
6

Thank you felix. It looks like its working but the built-in interpreter doesn’t seem to support it :cry:

7

I need help now with a different time problem, I need to let people for whoes supporter doesn’t support the time and date feature. Would it be possible using Inform 7 to allow the player to put in a time for example, can Inform keep track of time inside the program, and if so would it require using Inform 6 code?