com.sleepbot.WRLDtime.cron
Class WRLDcronTick

java.lang.Object
  com.sleepbot.WRLDtime.cron.WRLDcronTick

public class WRLDcronTick

extends java.lang.Object

A class which snapshots a single 'tick' (eg. time code) from the WRLDcron chronometer.

This class contains all the information necessary to determine the full granularity of a WRLDtime code at a given instant. Nearly all of the methods provided by this class are direct parallels of WRLDcron object methods.

version 1.3 - 01Jan05 - Daniel M Foley
version 1.2 - 19Nov00 - Daniel M Foley

Constructor Summary

WRLDcronTick(WRLDcron cron)
Constructs a new WRLDtime tick.

Method Summary

long	getBeat() Returns the beat of the tick's converted time
int	getBeatLength() Returns the number of digits in the tick's beat
java.util.Date	getDate() Returns the date at which this tick was created
long	getMeasure() Returns the measure of the tick's converted time
int	getMeasureLength() Returns the number of digits in the tick's measure
long	getTime() Returns the tick's converted time
int	getTimeLength() Returns the number of digits in the tick's full time code
WRLDcron	getWRLDcron() Returns the WRLDcron from object which this tick was generated
java.lang.String	toString() Returns a String representation of this object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

WRLDcronTick

public WRLDcronTick(WRLDcron cron)

Constructs a new WRLDtime tick.

Parameters:

cron - the WRLDcron object from which to create the snapshot.

Method Detail

getWRLDcron

public WRLDcron getWRLDcron()

Returns the WRLDcron from object which this tick was generated

Returns:

the WRLDcron object from which the snapshot was created.

getTime

public long getTime()

Returns the tick's converted time

See Also:

WRLDcron.getTime()

getBeat

public long getBeat()

Returns the beat of the tick's converted time

See Also:

WRLDcron.getBeat()

getMeasure

public long getMeasure()

Returns the measure of the tick's converted time

See Also:

WRLDcron.getMeasure()

getTimeLength

public int getTimeLength()

Returns the number of digits in the tick's full time code

See Also:

WRLDcron.getTimeLength()

getBeatLength

public int getBeatLength()

Returns the number of digits in the tick's beat

See Also:

WRLDcron.getBeatLength()

getMeasureLength

public int getMeasureLength()

Returns the number of digits in the tick's measure

See Also:

WRLDcron.getMeasureLength()

getDate

public java.util.Date getDate()

Returns the date at which this tick was created

See Also:

WRLDcron.getDate()

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Returns a String representation of this object.

Returns:

a String representation of this object.