Clock Change Texture On Time

[Elvio Zobovic]

Hi,

Could anyone help me out with this?

I have no clue what I'm doing wrong here but SL keeps giving me a syntax error.

 

integer now = (integer)llGetWallclock();
integer minutes = (now / 60) % 60;
integer hours = now / 3600;

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSetTimerEvent(5);
    }

    timer()
    {
        
        if (hours == 1)
        {
            
        }
        if (hours == 2)
        {
            
        }
        if (hours == 3)
        {
            
        }
        if (hours == 4)
        {
            
        }
        if (hours == 5)
        {
            
        }
        if (hours == 6)
        {
            
        }
        if (hours == 7)
        {
            
        }
        if (hours == 8)
        {
            
        }
        if (hours == 9)
        {
            
        }
        if (hours == 10)
        {
            
        }
        if (hours == 11)
        {
            
        }
        if (hours == 12 || hours == 00)
        {
            
        }
        
        if (mins == 13)
        {
            
        }
        if (mins == 28)
        {
            
        }
        if (mins == 43)
        {
            
        }
        if (mins == 58)
        {
            llSetTexture("41ae3187-3220-62df-00db-7f149bcc2d62",2);
        }
         
        
    }
}

  ERROR: (4, 14) : ERROR : Syntaxt error

 That is right where the '(' starts of '(integer)llGetWallclock();'

Thanks all help appreciated!

[Dora Gustafson]

Global variables may be initialized by constants not by expressions like you have

Do it in state_entry() instead

:smileysurprised::smileyvery-happy:

[Profaitchikenz Haiku]

Like Dora says, you can't call a function or initialise globals  using expressions, but putting the wallclock call inside state_entry will only cause it to get the wallclock time once and so it won't update.

I would put the three variables inside the timer event if they aren't going to be used in any other areas.

[Elvio Zobovic]

Ahh, that makes sense.

Thank you for your time replying!

[Madelaine McMasters]

To expand a bit on Dora's and Profaitchikenz's replies, global declarations outside of the state and event handlers of a script don't actually execute, and so they can't contain calls to functions. They can contain static expressions to be evaluated by the script compiler during compilation of the script. These declarations tell the compiler how to handle the variables when they're encountered later in the script. The compiler knows these declarations don't execute and warns you with the ever helpful "Syntax error". I'd argue that you'd actually made a semantic error ;-).

As Prof pointed out, you must be careful where you place the call to llGetWallClock() to make sure it's called when you want. If you just put it inside state_entry(), it will only be called when the script is reset or the prim is rezzed. It seems to me you want to set the face of your clock to reflect the current time, and you wish to do that every five seconds. For that reason, "now" should be updated via llGetWallclock() inside your timer event, where it can then drive your texture update logic. That's what Prof advised.