Thread: Making an Allam clock...

Guys in our class we were required to make a alarm clock... and i absolutely have no idea on making it....

you might say: "ughhh not another noob request! make me this thing and that... why wont he make it himself!?"

Well i;m not gona ask an instant code/program, but rather advice on what specific libraries and even code to look upon. Like ctime or time.h , well google is not specifically helping me on what i need. thats why i;m asking to you guys that have more experience on this.

i really want to make my own code/program and have full understanding on making it.
I;m looking for how to display time from desktop to the program and also prompt a time and make an alarm on it...

guys please help! thanks in advance.

Noobs need to learn that when they ask what libs to use, they need to specify what type of interface they want to have and what system they're targeting.

GUI or text, Windows or *nix?

IMO the right to do this is to use the OS. Make a cron job (Linux), or a Scheduled Task (Windows).

However...

printf("\a\a");

should make a "beep" or two, if you have a buzzer on your mobo.

Depending on your compiler, either sleep() or delay() should give you a pause between checking to see if the time is right for the alarm to sound. Both functions need the
#include <dos.h>

To make your alarm clock smart, I'd vary how long it sleeps or delays. Instead of checking say, every single second, work out a little arithmetic so if the alarm is set to go off, in 1 minute, your programs begins checking every second or even half second. But if the alarm time is a long way off - more than a minute say. Then the sleeps or delays would be longer.

There are a bunch of time functions. All of them require
#include <time.h>

localtime() looks promising for this, but it's not really simple to understand how to code it up.

But see if your compiler has localtime(), (and if not, what time functions does it have that you could use).

Post up your starting code, however meager it may be, and then we can see what you need.

I'm sorry if that sounded mean. It kinda was...

Maybe these will help:
alarm(S)
sleep(C)

I know Windows has a (limited) Unix subsystem, but does anyone here know if it supports unistd.h? I guess I could look it up, but I don't want to.