Archive for February, 2011

Here is a CCScene based Binary Clock implementation in cocos2d-iphone. I used 0.99.5 for this, but it should compile flawlessly on 0.99.4 as well…

ClockScene.h

//
//  ClockScene.h
//  BinaryClock
//
//  Created by Peter Mares on 23/02/2011.
//  Copyright 2011. All rights reserved.
//


// When you import this file, you import all the cocos2d classes
#import "cocos2d.h"

// HelloWorld Layer
@interface ClockScene : CCScene
{
	CCLabelTTF *_arrLabels[6];
}

+(id) scene;

@end

ClockScene.m

//
//  ClockScene.m
//  BinaryClock
//
//  Created by Peter Mares on 23/02/2011.
//  Copyright 2011. All rights reserved.
//

// Import the interfaces
#import "ClockScene.h"

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

@interface ClockScene ()
- (void) onTick:(ccTime)dt;
- (void) updateClockDisplay;
@end

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

// HelloWorld implementation
@implementation ClockScene

+(id) scene
{
	ClockScene *scene = [ClockScene node];
	return scene;
}

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

-(id) init
{
	if( (self=[super init] )) 
	{
		CGSize winSize = [[CCDirector sharedDirector] winSize];
		CCLabelTTF *label = nil;
		float yOffset = 0;
		
		for ( int i = 0; i < 6; i++ )
		{
			yOffset = (i % 2) * 25;
			label = [CCLabelTTF labelWithString:@"0000" fontName:@"Helvetica-Bold" fontSize:16];
			// some arbitrary magic numbers to make it work - you can make this more dynamic...
			label.position = ccp( winSize.width / 2 - ( (1-(i/2)) * 100 ), winSize.height / 2 - yOffset);
			[label setColor:ccc3(255, 255, 255)];
			_arrLabels[i] = label;
			
			[self addChild:label];
		}
		
		[self updateClockDisplay];
		[self schedule:@selector(onTick:) interval:1];
	}
	return self;
}

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

- (void) dealloc
{
	[super dealloc];
}

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

- (void) onTick:(ccTime)dt
{
	[self updateClockDisplay];
}

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

- (void) updateClockDisplay
{
	NSDate *now = [NSDate date];
	NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
	NSDateComponents *components = [calendar components:NSHourCalendarUnit|NSMinuteCalendarUnit|NSSecondCalendarUnit fromDate:now];
	int timeComponents[6];

	// now transform the hours, minutes and seconds into binary nibbles
	timeComponents[0] = [components hour] / 10;
	timeComponents[1] = [components hour] % 10;
	timeComponents[2] = [components minute] / 10;
	timeComponents[3] = [components minute] % 10;
	timeComponents[4] = [components second] / 10;
	timeComponents[5] = [components second] % 10;
	
	// translate each component into a binary nibble string
	for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++ )
	{
		NSMutableString* str = [NSMutableString string];
		
		for ( int bit = 8; bit > 0; bit >>= 1 )
			timeComponents[i] & bit ? [str appendString:@"1"] : [str appendString:@"0"];
			
		[_arrLabels[i] setString:str];
	}
}

@end