[RESOLVED] date & time (non static) in statusbar

[v_nom70]

hi all,

I'm trying to place the date and time in my statusbar, but the time does not change and remains static, I think I need a loop or something, I google it and found several ways to get time from my system, and this is the only one that works with 12h am-pm

//add time.h
	struct tm newtime;
	char am_pm []="am";
	char t_buf [26];
	__time64_t long_time;
	errno_t err;

	_time64 (&long_time);
	err = _localtime64_s (&newtime, &long_time);

	if (newtime. tm_hour>12)	strcpy_s (am_pm, sizeof (am_pm),"pm");
	if (newtime. tm_hour>12)	newtime.tm_hour	-=12;
	if (newtime. tm_hour==0)	newtime.tm_hour	 =12;
	err = asctime_s (t_buf,26,&newtime);

	wsprintf (t_buffer,"%.19s %s",t_buf, am_pm);
	SendMessage (h_statusbar, SB_SETTEXT, 0, (LPARAM) t_buffer);

//more optimized
	char am_pm []="am";
	SYSTEMTIME slt;
	GetLocalTime (&slt);
	
	if (slt.wHour>12)	strcpy_s (am_pm, sizeof (am_pm),"pm");
	if (slt.wHour>12)	slt.wHour	-=12;
	if (slt.wHour==0)	slt.wHour	 =12;

	wsprintf (t_buffer,
		"%02d/%02d/%d @ %02d:%02d:%02d %s",
		slt.wDay, slt.wMonth,slt.wYear, 
		slt.wHour,slt.wMinute,slt.wSecond,
		am_pm);

	SendMessage (h_statusbar, SB_SETTEXT, 0, (LPARAM) t_buffer);

maybe is simple but can not get a function for that, I do not want to do it for me, just guide me or the name of a function and excuse my language, I'm from latin america ^^

regards

[RogerD]

Add a timer component and put your code in the timer tick event. I think I saw an example of just this in VS walkthroughs.
You don't want to put it in a loop or you won't be able to do anything else!

[v_nom70]

Humm.. I forgot to say, do not use C# or MFC, I use vs2010 winapi 32 + mysql, but thank you wrote, I found WM_TIMER and SetTimer trying to find a solution.

[v_nom70]

Solved... thank you very much!!!

// WinMain
          SetTimer(hwnd, ID_MY_TIMER, 1000,(TIMERPROC) NULL);

// WndProc
	case WM_TIMER:
		switch (wp_wparam)
		{
		case ID_MY_TIMER:
			const char *dia[]={"Domingo","Lunes","Martes","Miercoles","Jueves","Viernes","Sabado"};
			char am_pm []="am";
			SYSTEMTIME slt;
			GetLocalTime (&slt);
			
			if (slt.wHour>12)	strcpy_s (am_pm, sizeof (am_pm),"pm");
			if (slt.wHour>12)	slt.wHour	-=12;
			if (slt.wHour==0)	slt.wHour	 =12;
			
			wsprintf (t_buffer,
				"%s %02d/%02d/%d @ %02d:%02d:%02d %s",
				dia[slt.wDayOfWeek],
				slt.wDay, slt.wMonth,slt.wYear, 
				slt.wHour,slt.wMinute,slt.wSecond,
				am_pm);
			
			SendMessage (h_statusbar, SB_SETTEXT, 0, (LPARAM) t_buffer);
			break;
		}
		break;