CustomStatus

[Doctor-Agon]

Hi All,
In my game I'd like both the Date and Time to be displayed in the custom status bar. Now I know that the clock can appear in a separate box, via the status attribute of the game.
Is there anyway it can appear and get updated with each move in the custom status box.
I'm using the Clock Library
I have the code as follows...

game_clock.startyear = 2025
SetTime ("34:14:35")
game.clock = TimeAsString()
game.DateTime = ""
game.DateTime = game.DateTime + Date()
game.DateTime = game.DateTime + "<br>"
game.DateTime = game.DateTime + game.clock

Any help is appreciated.

[KVonGit]

Are you using a custom status bar, or are you wanting to use a Custom Status Pane for this?

EDIT

To update the text in the custom status pane, I'm pretty sure you'd have to call JS.setCustomStatus () each time the clock updates (or each time want the displayed time to update).

So, if that is the only thing you are putting in that custom status pane, you could add a changed script to game.DateTime. One way to do that is to add this to the start script:

game.changedDateTime => {
  JS.setCustomStatus("CLOCK: " + game.DateTime)
}

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If you are wanting a pane, the easiest thing would be adding a "DateTime" status attribute to the game obect, and use something like this for the string when prompted after entering the attribute name "DateTime": Date and Time: !

Note: if using game.clock rather than game.DateTime, name that status attribute 'clock'. It has to match the actual attribute name.

That would add the pane and automatically update it.

[Doctor-Agon]

I didn't think you could have both the Date and Time in the game.status bar
That was why I was going to use the custom status bar

[KVonGit]

I edited my previous post. I misread your post the first time around. 😁

I also changed game.clock to game.DateTime in the code, as it looks like that is what you have set up to print during play.

[KVonGit]

I didn't think you could have both the Date and Time in the game.status bar That was why I was going to use the custom status bar

If each has its own attribute, it can be done.

Are you wanting to add this to the status bar at the top, where it says the room name?

[KVonGit]

This might be closer to what you want. (This actually uses ClockLib.)

Note

That "3th of February" text comes from that library, not me. 😇

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Time (Is on My Side).zip

<!--Saved by Quest 5.9.9166.36226-->
<asl version="580">
  <include ref="English.aslx" />
  <include ref="Core.aslx" />
  <include ref="ClockLib.aslx" />
  <game name="Time (Is on My Side)">
    <gameid>81468ce8-1982-408c-ad85-602a66086e79</gameid>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <firstpublished>2025</firstpublished>
    <feature_advancedscripts />
    <unresolvedcommandhandler type="script">
      SuppressTurnscripts
      msg (Template("UnrecognisedCommand"))
    </unresolvedcommandhandler>
    <statusattributes type="stringdictionary">
      <item>
        <key>clock</key>
        <value>Time: !</value>
      </item>
      <item>
        <key>date</key>
        <value>Date: !</value>
      </item>
    </statusattributes>
    <changedclock type="script">
      game.date = Date()
    </changedclock>
    <start type="script">
      game_clock.startyear = 2025
      SetTime ("34:14:35")
      game.clock = TimeAsString()
      game.date = Date()
    </start>
  </game>
  <object name="room">
    <inherit name="editor_room" />
    <object name="player">
      <inherit name="editor_object" />
      <inherit name="editor_player" />
    </object>
  </object>
</asl>

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If you're wanting this in the status bar instead of a status pane, you could easily change a little code to handle it that way instead of using the pane.

[KVonGit]

...and here is one way to add it to the status bar instead of using a pane.

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Time (Is on My Side).v1.1.zip

<!--Saved by Quest 5.9.9166.36226-->
<asl version="580">
  <include ref="English.aslx" />
  <include ref="Core.aslx" />
  <include ref="ClockLib.aslx" />
  <game name="Time (Is on My Side)">
    <gameid>3e17c2a5-962b-45b1-9e9c-58141e316a62</gameid>
    <version>1.1</version>
    <firstpublished>2025</firstpublished>
    <feature_advancedscripts />
    <unresolvedcommandhandler type="script">
      SuppressTurnscripts
      msg (Template("UnrecognisedCommand"))
    </unresolvedcommandhandler>
    <changedclock type="script">
      game.date = Date()
    </changedclock>
    <inituserinterface type="script"><![CDATA[
      // Only run if resuming a quest-save
      if (game.timeelapsed > 0) {
        UpdateDateTimeInLocationBar
      }
    ]]></inituserinterface>
    <start type="script">
      game_clock.startyear = 2025
      SetTime ("34:14:35")
      game.clock = TimeAsString()
      game.date = Date()
      UpdateDateTimeInLocationBar
    </start>
  </game>
  <object name="room">
    <inherit name="editor_room" />
    <object name="player">
      <inherit name="editor_object" />
      <inherit name="editor_player" />
    </object>
  </object>
  <turnscript name="update_date_time_in_location_turnscript">
    <enabled />
    <script>
      UpdateDateTimeInLocationBar
    </script>
  </turnscript>
  <function name="UpdateDateTimeInLocationBar"><![CDATA[
    JS.eval ("setTimeout(function(){if (typeof $('#date-time-status') !== 'undefined') {$('#date-time-status').remove();}  $(\"#location\").html($(\"#location\").html() + '<span id=\"date-time-status\" style=\"float: right;\">  TIME: " + TimeAsString() + ", DATE: " + Date() + "</span>');},1);")
  ]]></function>
</asl>

[Doctor-Agon]

Hi KV,

This is the status box I wanted to use.
Ignore the standard status box with 'Time: 2:35pm'

Thanks for all your assistance so far.