Thread: switching a bool

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    switching a bool

    Can I switch a bool object from another function. I am writing a function that advances a clock a certain number of minutes.

    If the hours end up being more than 12, I need to switch my bool variable that determines whether it is am or pm. So if it's 4am and I add 9 hours (540 minutes), I need to switch the bool from true to false.

    Can I do that?

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    Code:
    bool var = true;
    var = false;
    var = true;
    // etc...
    This what you mean?
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    Right. My bool tells me that if its true, it's AM, if it's false, it's PM. So if I advance my clock past AM or PM, I need to change from AM to PM, or true to false or vice versa.

    I know I can do this:

    Code:
    if (_hours > 12)
    	{
    		_hours = _hours + (_hours % 12);
    		if (_morn == true)
    			_morn = false;
    		else
    			_morn = true;
    	}
    But I was wondering if there is a way to just switch the bool.

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    Code:
    bool var;
    var = !var;
    That will switch a boolean variable from true to false or false to true.
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    EDIT:
    on 2nd thought, I'm being too complicated, joshdick's method was more obvious.

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    Though I cannot see all of your program, that piece of code you provided looks a bit suspicious. I may be misinterpreting what your variables are, but this is what I see.

    If '_hours' is greater than 12, it is the afternoon, so you would want to set '_morn' to false regardless of what it previously was.

    Also, the line '_hours = _hours + (_hours % 12);' seems a bit suspicious. For example, if it is 2 PM, _hours == 14 initially. 14 % 12 = 2, so _hours is set to 14 + 2 = 16. Is this what you are going for?

    Anyways, hope this is somewhat useful. Cheers
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    Zach -- he's talking about advancing the clock by x hours -- so if he advances more than 12, it needs to switch AM/PM.

    HOWEVER, this way is flawed, too. What if you advance by more than 24 hours in a go?

    I recommend instead that you simply make a class to do this, and internally simply store the time as an integer number of minutes, where 0 represents 12:00 AM, and 1439 represents 11:59 PM. It's quite easy to get each of the parameters (hours, minutes, AM/PM) from this single number, as follows:

    int hours = (m_time/60) % 12;
    if (hours == 0) hours = 12;
    int minutes = m_time%60;
    bool AM = m_time/60 < 12;
    bool PM = m_time/60 > 11;

    Incrementing time is also easy:

    m_time = (m_time + increment) % 1440;
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