Hi everybody,

in the German cable network there are a few channels that are shared by two different stations. For example on one channel "NICK" is broadcasting during the day and at 8 pm it switches to "Das 4." which will switch back at 6 am to "NICK".
On the TV channel page of my 9400, where you can select TV Stations through buttons with channel logos, I now have two buttons, one with the "NICK" logo, one with the "Das 4." logo, but both do of course the same thing: Switch to the channel, where both stations are broadcasting.

I am not a programmer and won't have any chance to get into ProntoScript in the near future, so here is what I want to achieve:

It would be pretty cool to have a button for the channel, that dynamically, depending on time of day, changes the image (channel logo). So the button would during the day show the "NICK" logo and at 8 pm switches to the "Das 4." logo and vice versa at 6 am.

Is something like that possible?

Thanks for any comments

Stefan

Yes as long as you are willing to write pronto script. In fact it is actually fairly simple.

The code would run at page startup and perhaps scheduled for every minute while the page is active. The function would be about 4-10 lines of code depending on how you count lines. It would check the time on the remote and change the widgets image depending on time.

Ok, finally I worked my way through the ProntoScript Developers guide and with non to little knowledge in programming about 70% of it are clear to me.

Now I wanted to achieve my above stated goal. I failed already on the first thing to achieve: Reading out the time via getDisplayTime(). May be it is because I am lacking the basic background of JavaScript, but how do you use this method? I tried just to asign it to a variable

var time = getDisplayTime()

which didn't work.

I also tried to use it as a function:

var time = 0;

time.getDisplayTime()

which also didn't work.

Can anybody help me with the correct syntax to retrieve the time from this?

Thanks

Try this....

var time = GUI.getDisplayTime();

getDisplayTime is a 'class' method on the GUI class. Therefore, you must prefix with GUI.

First of all: I ordered Flanagans Javascript guide today, so I won't have to ask anymore silly questions, but until it is here... :-)

OK, thanks to Lyndel I now have a variable with the timestring in it, which brings me to my next problem:

When I want to "extract" the hour via parseInt(time) I only get the correct result if the hour is 10 or greater. Otherwise the hour begins with a 0 (01, 02...) and the parseInt() always gives me 0 and not 01, 02...

Any suggestions?