Drawing Time and Date

Dwar · 2010-12-15, 01:24 PM

Here is a nice perk i like in a D3D, so i dont lose track of time when i play

//includes 



#include <time.h> 



//globals 



char cTimeAndDate[80]; 

time_t tValue; 





//Do the rest In EndScene 



HRESULT APIENTRY IDirect3DDevice9::EndScene() 

{ 



  tValue = time(NULL); 

  strftime(cTimeAndDate, sizeof(cTimeAndDate), "[ %a - %b %d - %i:%m %p ]", localtime(&tValue)); 



  return Device->EndScene(); 



}

Here's another way you can display time using <ctime>.

Include this at the top

#include <ctime>

Do this in End Scene:

char time  [5]

_strtime( time  );

printf( "%s", time  );

And to display it you would use your draw text function.
In a starter kit it'll most likely look like this:

m_pFont_new->DrawText(710,310,txtWhite,time);

by Roverturbo

jomel590 · 2010-12-25, 05:15 AM

Sir problems..

1>------ Build started: Project: Time, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1>Compiling...
1>time.cpp
1>c:\users\raquel\pictures\documents\visual studio 2008\projects\time\time\time.cpp(13) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'APIENTRY'
1>c:\users\raquel\pictures\documents\visual studio 2008\projects\time\time\time.cpp(13) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>c:\users\raquel\pictures\documents\visual studio 2008\projects\time\time\time.cpp(13) : error C2653: 'IDirect3DDevice9' : is not a class or namespace name
1>c:\users\raquel\pictures\documents\visual studio 2008\projects\time\time\time.cpp(13) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'EndScene'
1>c:\users\raquel\pictures\documents\visual studio 2008\projects\time\time\time.cpp(13) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>c:\raquel\pictures\documents\visual studio 2008\projects\time\time\time.cpp(14) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
1>c:\pictures\documents\visual studio 2008\projects\time\time\time.cpp(19) : error C2065: 'Device' : undeclared identifier
1>c:\pictures\documents\visual studio 2008\projects\time\time\time.cpp(19) : error C2227: left of '->EndScene' must point to class/struct/union/generic type
1> type is ''unknown-type''
1>c:\pictures\documents\visual studio 2008\projects\time\time\time.cpp(19) : warning C4508: 'EndScene' : function should return a value; 'void' return type assumed
1>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Users\raquel\Pictures\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\Time\Time\Debug\BuildLog.htm"
1>Time - 8 error(s), 1 warning(s)
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

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