I was interested to try the Moon Phase IO Page 140 of the Programmers Guide refers to a file \PICED\Image Library\Frames\Moon Phase.bmp This file is not installed in my system. I also tried a completely new install on another PC - still no file. I would appreciate any advice on how to get this bmp (or that I have overlooked something), and anything else that may be relevant! Many thanks
That's awesome thanks Darren But I don't think it's quite there yet. I'm showing 20.4 moon phase day and moon phase 6. According to the net, new moon is on the 25th November - so days and phase looking good. Moon phase name showing "last quarter". I can't see the moon at the moment - but seems OK!! However the graphic that comes up with the bitmap shows a half moon. Any ideas?? Many thanks Roger
At the moment, about half of the moon is visible, and it is heading towards the new moon. This is called the "Last Quarter". The word "quarter" here refers to a quarter of the moon's cycle, not a quarter of it being visible. See http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/moon/Phases.shtml for details of the naming of the moon's cycles.
More questions! I am playing around with the moon phase display. The graphics that Darren has made available are a great start - but there are only 8 frames. And also I think the frame order v the frame displayed are wrong. For example we are now Moon Phase 7, Waning Crescent. But graphic frame actually shows a new moon "Waxing Crescent". Darren has provided a web reference - but I think the following is better / more informative. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_phase. This also has a lovely 56 frame animated gif. So I want to use this 56 frame graphic!! I have resized it, deleted the text at the top, and converted it to the required BMP. All wonderfully seamless & easy. The graphic works perfectly with a Slider control - so now to make it work properly. I am happy to post this if anyone wants! Now to use the SystemIO "Moon Phase Day" with some simple arithmetic to convert it from 29.75 days to 56 frames. But... I can't get any logic associated with this to work. In Logic (I have declared the various variables as Global Variables) MoonPhase56Real := GetRealBSystemIO("Moon Phase Day"); does not work "Moon Phase Day" is not mentioned in the 4.17.3 In-Built System IO Variables in the logic manual - so perhaps it's not there yet?? I tried another SystemIO variable that was Real. No luck. So tried a simpler Int. Still nothing - so now it must be me - but I just can't see what I'm doing wrong??!! The Int version I tried MoonPhase56Int := GetIntBSystemIO("Scene Component Count"); 3 Errors Error C104 at line 838:19 - Identifier is not declared Error C059 at line 838:34 - Error in variable Error C261 at line 838:35 - Tag Error My user SystemIO has no problems - MoonPhase56 := getrealsystemio("MoonPhase 56"); I used this User System IO as part of the slider control & frame display on my original trials I would appreciate someone putting me back on the straight & narrow!! Thanks in advance
In the Wikipedia article you referenced, under the diagram of the moon phases it says "Phases of the Moon, as seen looking southward from the Northern Hemisphere. The Southern Hemisphere will see each phase rotated through 180?" The images I provided are for the Southern Hemisphere (which is where New Zealand was last time I checked ) You left an "I" out of GetRealIBSystemIO If you double clicked on the error message in the logic editor, it would have placed the cursor at the start of the word "GetRealBSystemIO" indicating that this was where the error was, not with the System IO Variable name.
Moon Image I too couldn't find the moon image; so I knocked this up myself. It's a bit prettier than the stock standard (I think anyway). Being that I've got a lot of help/ideas from this forum I thought I'd give back something to the community.
Thanks to all Thanks especially to Darren who has pointed out flaws - twice in one post!!! Think I have it sussed now - seems to work OK. Project files attached If anyone has any suggestions or comments - then they would be gratefully received. Thanks again Roger
