Countdown till christmass
 

yea got bored, made it, dont expect much else, if somethings wrong, tell me and ill fix it

(Thanks to Arty for the improved version)

Wow, this is amazing.

[QUOTE=jediaction;44270]Wow, this is amazing.[/QUOTE]

Lol really? i didnt think too much of it

This is pretty nice.
Do think much of it.

It's an actualy count down, thats why it's amazing.

Only 18 days!
I see you spelt Christmas with two [I]s[/I] letters on the end in the title and attachment name, but not on the text in the world.

Thats amazing. Great idea. Does it take the time from your computer? or from the downloaders?

[QUOTE=dakota95;44305]Thats amazing. Great idea. Does it take the time from your computer? or from the downloaders?[/QUOTE]

lol thanks and from your computer

how does it do that, is it hacks?

[IMG]http://i44.tinypic.com/1g2hkj.png[/IMG]
It's under world's functions.

[QUOTE=GameKid;44316][IMG]http://i44.tinypic.com/1g2hkj.png[/IMG]
It's under world's functions.[/QUOTE]

lol exactly thats why i dont think its amazing because it gives you the time already

Well. Still. You have to admit, it's still quite nice. You should make another one for new year's!

I love it!

Hmm, it's been a whole year, wonder if this still works...

[QUOTE=nickster654;51491]Hmm, it's been a whole year, wonder if this still works...[/QUOTE]
No, it doesn't :(. It claims there are only 18 days to go, which would take it up to November 25. I don't think you've factored months into this.

[QUOTE=arty-fishL;51504]No, it doesn't :(. It claims there are only 18 days to go, which would take it up to November 25. I don't think you've factored months into this.[/QUOTE]

yeahh i think it only works for chritmass of 2011, and i cant really fix it because ever since i started java, i've forgotten everything about alice ):

[QUOTE=nickster654;51546]yeahh i think it only works for chritmass of 2011, and i cant really fix it because ever since i started java, i've forgotten everything about alice ):[/QUOTE]It works for the 25th of every month.

Awesome, you started Java, you should check out mine and drellem's ArtyOnline project - its networked multiplayer for Alice - written in Java. It's not quite finished, because I'm doing a tonne of web based stuff for it right now, but it'll be interesting to see what people make with it when it is done.

[QUOTE=arty-fishL;51548]It works for the 25th of every month.

Awesome, you started Java, you should check out mine and drellem's ArtyOnline project - its networked multiplayer for Alice - written in Java. It's not quite finished, because I'm doing a tonne of web based stuff for it right now, but it'll be interesting to see what people make with it when it is done.[/QUOTE]

so far, all i know in java is how to make spirals and stick figure using turtle.java, what you're doing is a different language probably to me

[QUOTE=nickster654;51562]so far, all i know in java is how to make spirals and stick figure using turtle.java, what you're doing is a different language probably to me[/QUOTE]I've never heard of turtle.java, so yeh - probably completely different. I kind of jumped right in at the deep end, its really easy
to code Java after working with Jython and reading Java for so long.

You can make countdown work for any time of the year if you change first line of instructions.

change from:
[B]world.days set value to (25-day of month) duration=0 seconds[/B]
change to:
[B]world.days set value to [I][U](359[/U][/I]-[I][U]day of year[/U][/I]) duration=0 seconds[/B]
(If you do 365 it includes the 6 days after Christmas, so it won't calculate correctly.)

As long as you view the countdown between Jan 1 and Dec 25 it should work out great!

I decided to fix it.
It now accounts (and should work) for:
- months
- leap years
- viewing it on the 6 days after christmas

I also compared it to some online countdowns I found and realised a fundamental mistake; when you are already into the last day, hour or minute, there are 0 of them left, not 1.
This doesn't apply to seconds, because milliseconds aren't displayed.

I also rearranged some of the code, so that it is more efficient.

[QUOTE=arty-fishL;51599]I decided to fix it.
It now accounts (and should work) for:
- months
- leap years
- viewing it on the 6 days after christmas

I also compared it to some online countdowns I found and realised a fundamental mistake; when you are already into the last day, hour or minute, there are 0 of them left, not 1.
This doesn't apply to seconds, because milliseconds aren't displayed.

I also rearranged some of the code, so that it is more efficient.[/QUOTE]

Very cool, looks like this is the new official count down.

is it too late to bump this?

Great idea.