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If we don't draw the bitmap, the revealing part would be blank! If you don't know, the form is 'painted' everytime the form is resized, gets focus, releaved some part while moving, the form is painted. We draw the clockBitmap everytime the form is painted. Procedure TForm1.FormPaint(Sender: TObject)

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Now select the form and enter the following code in its OnPaint event (Object Inspector -> Events -> OnPaint -> ):

We use the procedure to draw an initial text '-:- ' on the form. We also use drawDigits, which we didn't declare yet. We prepare digitsBitmap and load the digits.bmp on it. We will draw this exact TBitmap in the form on its OnPaint event. We create clockBitmap with the dimensions of our form. Procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject) Now, we know all the information of the charaters in the bmp file. digitPositions array contains 1 to 15 string items containing each digits' real string. Now, we'll define what's in our digits.bmpĭigitPositions: array of String = ( Now, add information about the single digits. If we don't save the project it would run from the Temp directory and image would not be found.įirst, define the TBitmaps that will hold the digits.bmp (digitsBitmap) and the final clock image (clockBitmap). Why are we saving our project that early? Because, we are using the digits.bmp from that folder. Save the project to the empty directory that you just made. There is the Photoshop psd file in the project download, just in case you want to play with it.Ĭreate a new Application Project (Project -> New Project -> Applicaiton -> OK). We'll use the folder as the project folder. I have saved the image as 'digits.bmp' in an empty folder that I made. You can download thousands of fonts from the internet and place the digits like the above image. Depending on the time we'll take certain parts of the image and draw it out in our form. It has 15 characters/digits/states of that dimension. Each digit has an imaginery area of 30px x 50px. Opened photoshop and positioned the digits. I have downloaded a LCD digit-looking font, Let's Go Digital, from here. (You can right click and select 'Save Image as.' to download and use the image in your project.)

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That way it wouldn't need to install the font and it is possible to use hundreds of images of different fonts without installing them in users' computer. Especially if you consider cross-platform scenerio. But using those fonts would mean that the font should be installed in the system that will run the program. The answer is there are many digit-looking fonts out there. So, how can we show LCD looking displays.

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If you are interested on how to make the computer speak, check out this tutorial. Sounds difficult but it's not.įor the talking part, we will use TTS (Text to Speech), so no tension there either. Okey, all those new technology apart, today we'll build a small digital clock that sits on your screen and shows time in an LCD Display-like digits.

We now have smartwatches that shows time, takes photos, receives messages and more. Wherever the new technology taking us, we're rediscovering the clock but can't avoid it. It can also speak the time!Ĭlock is an essential part of our daily lives. We are going to make a digital clock that has LCD Screen looking digits.