Changing AM/PM to lower case

[Grimsin]

I want to change the %p output to display lowercase instead of uppercase. Any way to do this?

[v6o]

I don't think there's any "option" like %p to use but you could use string.lower()

[Grimsin]

Hmm how would i go about that? the other way i see to do it is to write a script that basicly reads....

If %p = AM then SetText:am

or something along those lines that obviously isnt a functioning piece of code but...

was hoping their was an easier way

[Seerah]

http://wowprogramming.com/docs/api/strlower

[Grimsin]

Hmm i cant seem to get anything to work....

i tried this bit of code changing the strlower part up a few dif ways.

local previousMinute, timer = -1, -1
Clock:SetScript('OnUpdate', function(self, elapsed)
	PM = strlower(pm);
	AM = strlower(am);
	timer = timer - elapsed
	if timer > 0 then return end
	timer = 5
	server_hour, server_minute = GetGameTime()
	if server_minute == previousMinute then return end
	previousMinute = server_minute
	Time:SetText(("%d:%s"):format(tonumber(date("%I")), date("%M %p")))
	if self.tooltip then
		OnEnter(self)
	
	end

i also tried > = string.lower("pm")

among other things, including changing the position of that line in the script....

[xConStruct]

Time:SetText(date("%I:%M%p"):lower())

You can put your whole format() into the date() function, since it works like format(). And then you lower() the whole resulting string before passing it to :SetText()

[Grimsin]

according to the wow api lower() lowers the frame level. not the capitalization..... gonna try it anyhow.

[Grimsin]

This looks like it should work but its not so far.... i think this is how you were saying to do it Cargor?

Time:SetText(("%d:%s"):format(tonumber(date("%I")), :strlower((date("%M %p"))))

[xConStruct]

Does my code not work?

myString:lower() is basically the short form for string.lower(myString) or strlower(myString).

Without the ":" before strlower, your code should work.

[Akryn]

I think you can just do this, basically the same as already posted...:

Time:SetText((date("%I:%M %p")):lower())

[Grimsin]

took the : out and it worked perfect. Thanks

final working code is

Time:SetText(("%d:%s"):format(tonumber(date("%I")),strlower((date("%M%p")))))

[Seerah]

Originally Posted by Cargor Does my code not work? myString:lower() is basically the short form for string.lower(myString) or strlower(myString). Without the ":" before strlower, your code should work.

Where did you find :lower()? WoW's shortcut for string.lower is strlower, and I haven't seen anything about :lower(). It's not on the fontstring list/page at wowprogramming either. Is it provided by a library?

[Torhal]

Frame:Lower()
Reduces the frame's frame level, layering it behind other frames in its strata

[Akryn]

I haven't checked wowwiki, but I've used it before, and I just logged in to test:

("HI"):lower()

works fine and results in "hi" with no addons active.

[xConStruct]

Originally Posted by Seerah Where did you find :lower()? WoW's shortcut for string.lower is strlower, and I haven't seen anything about :lower(). It's not on the fontstring list/page at wowprogramming either. Is it provided by a library?

All strings are derived from the "string"-table, so instead of string.lower(myString) you can write myString:lower(), because they inherit the functions of "string". Same goes for gsub(), match() and so on.

[Slakah]

and you can do funky stuff like this

string.print = print
 
local x = "FOOOO"
x:print()

:P

In essence all strings have a metatable of {__index = string}, and infact after checking it in the lua web demo you can prove it with

print(getmetatable("BLAH").__index == string)

WoW is slightly different as strings metatables don't seem to have an __index field and instead reference string directly

print(getmetatable("BLAH") == string)

[Seerah]

Thanks for the answers. Makes sense now.