Newbie problem.
I'm trying to translate time values to their written textual equivalents
e.g.
3:15 pm as 'A quarter past three.'
My daughter is autistic and readily becomes anxious about numbers. Having a clock without numbers would be an asset.
Thanks for any help
This javascript comes close:
You could use the webviewer/webviewstring to do the conversion.
There doesn't appear to be any "built-in" function to do this.
How coarse do you need the rounding?
5 minutes?
10 minutes?
Just quarter and half hours?
Hello Keith
I think you can do it easily with a List of pairs of hours in numbers + words, and a List of pairs of minutes in numbers + words. (including quarter, half etc). Your example should include am or pm in the text version.
So, you can write a procedure that reads the current time, looks-up it's elements in the Lists and builds the textural time with those List Items.
The snag is, you can't build the App as an always-running-clock because that requires Android Background Services and App Inventor does not support them. There are other easy-to-use languages that do, if that (a clock) is what you need.
Here is my effort on this, not pretty but seems to work OK.
Handles every minute
Uses a quarter to, a quarter past, and half past
Uses textToSpeech to speak the time
SpokenClock.aia (8.2 KB)
So generous of you all to respond so quickly.
I'll look these over. Thanks for the support!
K
