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Re: A calculation question.
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Re: A calculation question.


  • Subject: Re: A calculation question.
  • From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 14:16:08 -0700

On 5/1/02 11:58 AM, "Kinsella, John R." <email@hidden> wrote:

> set actionTime to text returned of (display dialog "Enter the time, in
> seconds, you want this action to occur)
> set startTime to StartTime + actionTime
>
> --Here's where I'm kind of stuck I want to set theMinutes here and
> theSeconds here

<snip>
> I stuck
> as to how to calculate the number of minutes and set that to a variable and
> then get the number of remaining seconds and set that to a variable. Any
> ideas??

Although it wouldn't be particularly difficult to write a routine to divide
by 60 and get the remainder, AppleScript has these functions built in:

set theMinutes to actionTime div 60
set theSeconds to actionTime mod 60


set stringVersion to ("" & theMinutes & " minutes and " & theSeconds &
" seconds")

or do whatever else you want with the variables. Don't forget to set them
'as string' or coerce to string with a preceding "" & as I did above if
that's how you need them.

--
Paul Berkowitz
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