Percentage of Ball Possession and a Bar to Represent It
Example Used:
In this example we will show how to create a bar chart to display the percentage of the ball possession of each team.
Commands Used
- $this_button
- Length Instances
- Round
- Button Color
- If (Statements)
- @"button_id"
How-to:
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Create two inactive buttons assign the ID to each button: “aposs” and “bposs”.
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Give these buttons the following script to calculate each team's possession:
$home = length instances where row = #'aposs'
This variable is where we will store the total possession of team A. We use the length command to get a total time value for the row #”aposs”. This row is determined using the button ID of the button with name “A POSS” which ID = aposs.$away = length instances where row = #'bposs'
We follow the same logic as for the $home variable, but this time to get the possession of team B.$total = $home + $away
We use this variable to get the total length for both rows.$percent = $away / $total
In this variable we divide one team’s possession by the total in order to be able to produce the percentage later.$percentname = ROUND ($percent*100,0)
The round command will allow us to get the first number inside the parenthesis, in this case our $percent multiplied by 100 to get the %, with 0 decimals to have a final rounded number.show $percentname
Finally we show the output of the number calculated in the variable $percentname that will be the percentage. -
Create two buttons. Assign each a color using the palette of the inspector and give each a button ID: “color1” and “color2”. We will use these buttons later to assign the colors to the bar graph.
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Create 50 inactive buttons for the bar graph (each % increment will be a 2% increment). Assign a name to each button from 1 to 99 with a difference of 2 between each: 1, 3, 5, etc...
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Give the following script to each of the 50 buttons:
$a = number ($this_button)
We use the $THIS_BUTTON command to pull in the button’s name, but we are also telling the button it is a number.$b = $a +1
Here we get the number of the $a variable and add 1 to it.$c = @"aposs"
With the @”aposs” we get the output of the button that has ID = aposs.$d = @"bposs"
This gets the result of the button that has ID = bposs.if($b <= $c, button color #"color1", button color #"color2")
With the IF statement, we check if $b is equal or less than the result of $c. If this is true the button will change to the same color as the button we created at the beginning that has ID = color1. In any other case it will change the color to the same color of the button with ID = color2. -
To approve the appearance of the bar, adjust the button stroke width to zero by highlighting all buttons and mass changing to zero.