Master Clock Controller Sub-Application

Table of Contents

• Master Clock Controller Screen
  • Screen Controls
• Config Clock Popover
  • Screen Controls

Master Clock Controller Screen for Use with an electronic scoresheet

This sub-application is a Master Display, which equates to a Bonjour Service Server.

The Master Clock Controller Screen is shown below.

Note the orange network state indicator, this indicates that the Master Clock Controller is not currently connected to any slave displays.

Main Control Room Screen

Below is the Master Clock Controller with the green Network Connectively Indicator showing that at least one Slave display is connected.

Screen Controls

This sub-application has six control buttons:

          Back: This will back out of the sub-application.

Reset Clock: This will reset the clock to the start of the first quarter, with the shot clock reset.

          Config Clock: This will open the configure clock screen, which allows the game clock to be configured.

Button Disabled while game clock is running.

          Reset: This will reset the shot clock to 30.0 seconds or what ever has been configured for the shot clock.

          The game clock can be configured into two modes: Running Time and Actual Time.

          In Running Mode, this is used for Junior competitions where games need to run to a tight schedule:

Start: Starts the game clock at the beginning of a quarter, otherwise just starts the shot clock.

Stop: Just stops the Shot Clock.

In Actual Mode, stoppages stop the game clock:

Start: Starts the game clock and the shot running.

Stop: Stops the game clock and the shot clock.

Config Clock Popover

The Config Clock Screen is shown below:

The Config Clock is shown as a popover display.

Screen Controls

It has two control buttons:

• Ok: Sets the game clock config according to the text fields and dismisses the popover.
• Cancel: Dismisses the popover, discarding any changes.

The screen has switch to set running/actual time mode.

The screen has segmented control to select  the number of "quarters" to play, one, two or four. The consequences of each value are as follows, when selected:

• One: The game consists of only one quarter period, the half and quarter time fields are ignored.
• Two: The game consists of two half, each one a quarter period long, with a half time  break.
• Four: The game consists of four quarters, each one a quarter period long, with a half time, and quarter time breaks as set.

The screen has a number of text fields, the purpose of each should be self evident.

The screen has a segmented control to select how many periods of extra time will apply in the case of draw, the default is zero, which is normally the correct value.

(Extra Time is typically only used in finals for most competitions)

Master Clock Controller for Use without an Electronic Scoresheet

Below is the Master Clock Controller with Score Up , Score Down and Exclusion controls for each team.

This variant allows for simpler control over the game clock, which might be useful if you use the application

with a manual scorecard for example.

Screen Controls

It has control buttons for managing the scores and starting an exclusion timer for each team.

In addition it has buttons:

• Find Game: Find a game in the database, used to populate the team names principly
• Next Game: If you found a group of games, next game will find the next logical game.
• New Game: Launches the Game Editor.

Analogous to the game controls on the electronic score sheet.