Edit boxes again

[Wynd]

I am trying to make a simple program that tell you how many minutes, hours, days, etc., your computer has been on using GetTickCount(). When I click a button, I want ot to display (for example):

0 days
0 hours
20 minutes

but how can I add the newlines? If I use "\n" it just gives me the little black box.

[chrisjk]

Perl mimic's C quite a bit (\n is newline in perl too). Perl also has \r for carriage return...have you tried that (if it's in C that is )

Maybe a combination will work, like \r\n (like vbCrLf)

[sail3005]

i don't think you can use those kind of characters in editboxes though

[chrisjk]

It was a complete guess, I don't know C but I recognised the \n from Perl, which is very C-like.

[sail3005]

what is the diff (in perl) beteen /n and /r?

[chrisjk]

r is carriage return
n is newline (linefeed)

Usually you have to combine them when writing to files so it displays correctly under Windows, otherwise you get boxes (like Wynd was describing).

[sail3005]

oh, i see. cool

[DaoK]

You can use <<std::endl to change line

[DaoK]

I just want to know why you do not take the time in the BIOS. I already did that in VB so I suppose we can do it in C++.

Daok

[sail3005]

what are you talking about?

[Wynd]

I tried \r\n and I get two boxes.

[Wynd]

DaOK: I don't want the current time, just the time since the computer was turned on.

[sail3005]

doesn't time.h get it from the BIOS?

[crptcblade]

Originally posted by Wynd
I am trying to make a simple program that tell you how many minutes, hours, days, etc., your computer has been on using GetTickCount(). When I click a button, I want ot to display (for example):

0 days
0 hours
20 minutes

but how can I add the newlines? If I use "\n" it just gives me the little black box.

Are you sure you gave it the ES_MULTILINE style when you created the edit box?

[crptcblade]

Originally posted by sail3005
doesn't time.h get it from the BIOS?

Don't know, but you can also use the GetLocalTime() API function.

[DaoK]

Oops I did an error it's not with the BIOS but with the Kernel.

'Put that in a timer
Dim d As Integer
Dim h As Integer
Dim m As Integer
Dim s As Integer
Dim TimeStamp As String
'Get milliseconds from API
iTick = GetTickCount
'Convert milliseconds in days, hrs, mins, secs
d = iTick \ 86400000
h = (iTick Mod 86400000) \ 3600000
m = ((iTick Mod 86400000) Mod 3600000) \ 60000
s = (((iTick Mod 86400000) Mod 3600000) Mod 60000) \ 1000
'Create a "time stamp" string
TimeStamp = Format(d, "###0 Days. ") & _
Format(h, "#0h. ") & _
Format(m, "00min. ") & _
Format(s, "00sec")
text1.text= TimeStamp
'Module :
Public Declare Function GetTickCount Lib "kernel32" _
() As Long

This is for VB, I hope than you can do something like that with C++

Daok

[Wynd]

Originally posted by crptcblade


Are you sure you gave it the ES_MULTILINE style when you created the edit box?

Thanks, you rule.

[abdul]

Try this:

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream.h>
#include <math.h>
int main()
{
    int x;
    int days,hours,mintues,seconds,rem;
    DWORD tc;
    tc = GetTickCount();
    rem = tc/1000;
    days = rem/86400;
    rem = fmod((DOUBLE)rem,(DOUBLE)86400);
    hours = rem/3600;
    rem = fmod((DOUBLE)rem,(DOUBLE)3600);
    mintues = rem/60;
    rem = fmod((DOUBLE)rem,(DOUBLE)60);
    seconds = rem;
    
    cout<<"Days: "<<days<<endl;
    cout<<"Hours: "<<hours<<endl;
    cout<<"Minutes: "<<mintues<<endl;
    cout<<"Seconds: "<<seconds<<endl;

    cin>>x;
    return 0;
} 

I think it works fine

[Wynd]

Thanks, and thanks from the other thread too

[abdul]

welcome