Comments on: Polar clock using donut chart [Excel Visualization fun]

By: robin

robin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:01:00 +0000

exellent work…. fantastic

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By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:43:50 +0000

Malik – There is no donut chart axis.
Darone & Chandoo – I’ve uploaded a workbook that updates the time regularly without eating up all of Excel’s resources:
donut-clock-running.zip

By: Chandoo

Chandoo — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:22:41 +0000

@Branden: thank you
@Jon, with someone like you, conversation is always a pleasure and enriching…
@Malik: welcome to PHD blog. Yeah, I should have added the exact step of creating a donut chart, may be in some other post.
@Darone: welcome to PHD… Thanks for sharing the idea with our readers.

hitting f9 constantly using macros can eat up whole processing power. Better way to do it is to use sleep or wait commands between subsequent f9 calls through vba. You have to realize that time doesn’t change that often.. it would suffice if you can call recalculate once every second. Alternatively if you have the additional active-x controls enabled you could use timer control and write events on that.. but that would take out the fun

By: darone

darone — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:49:47 +0000

I thought that idea was a great one, and I started playing at creating my own. I changed a few things that I think make it a little smoother. I have the minutes include the fraction of the seconds, the hour the fraction of the minutes and seconds, day of the hour minutes and seconds… this makes it so that all of the pieces move a little bit more often so that you don’t get big jumps when it changes from Tuesday to Wednesday, or 5pm to 6pm. I thought that was a nice little addition in the hopes of making things more fluid. I created a macro of me pressing F9 a bunch of times, and then a macro of me pressing the first macro a bunch of times to make it all happen automatically for a couple of hours, but it ate up lots and lots of system resources.

By: MALIK

MALIK — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:43:27 +0000

NICE work n great creativity but the problem is the person didn’t explain it completly . but still hats off man i m faceing the problem is where do i get donut chat axis.. can any 1 help me ?

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:43:54 +0000

Chandoo - You provide good topics for conversation: Time is on My Side