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Irwin Aschkenas
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 Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 5:08 am Post subject: TDateTime |
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Is there anyway to view a TDateTime in the debugger as a formatted date
string instead of a float ?
Thanks
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Harold Howe [TeamB]
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: TDateTime |
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Irwin Aschkenas wrote:
| Quote: | Is there anyway to view a TDateTime in the debugger as a formatted date
string instead of a float ?
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Try Evaluate/Modify on the method that converts the datetime object to a
string. This might work from the watch window, if you enable side
effects for the watch.
H^2
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Irwin Aschkenas
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:13 pm Post subject: Re: TDateTime |
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I tried it, but got an error "Cannot initialize const System::AnsiString &
with char *"
Basically I had a variable called xxxTime of TDateTime of lets says class a.
So in the inspect or the watch window I tried
a->xxxtime.FormatString( "yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss.zzz" )
"Harold Howe [TeamB]" <hhowe (AT) dontcallmehoward (DOT) com> wrote
| Quote: | Irwin Aschkenas wrote:
Is there anyway to view a TDateTime in the debugger as a formatted date
string instead of a float ?
Try Evaluate/Modify on the method that converts the datetime object to a
string. This might work from the watch window, if you enable side
effects for the watch.
H^2
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Harold Howe [TeamB]
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| Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: TDateTime |
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Irwin Aschkenas wrote:
| Quote: | I tried it, but got an error "Cannot initialize const System::AnsiString &
with char *"
Basically I had a variable called xxxTime of TDateTime of lets says class a.
So in the inspect or the watch window I tried
a->xxxtime.FormatString( "yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss.zzz" )
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The evaulate modify window probably cannot do the same method resolution
and type conversion logic that the C++ compiler does.
Two ideas:
1 - Doesn't TDateTime have a simple method for converting to a string
that doesn't take any arguments? Try that.
2- If that's not good enough, add a const AnsiString to your code:
const AnsiString DEBUG_DATE_FORMATTER = "yyyy-mm-dd hh:nn:ss.zzz"
In the evaluate window, try
a->xxxtime.FormatString( DEBUG_DATE_FORMATTER)
I don't know if this will work. I don't have BCB handy at the moment,
otherwise I would try it on my own.
H^2
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Danzer
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| Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:25 pm Post subject: Re: TDateTime |
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Irwin Aschkenas wrote:
| Quote: | Is there anyway to view a TDateTime in the debugger as a formatted date
string instead of a float ?
Thanks
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// A small application to illustrate a possible solution.
#include <windows.h>
#include <dateutils.hpp>
#define DATEDEBUG
/*
If DATEDEBUG is defined,
TDebugDateTime acts as a wrapper for TDateTime.
The constructor and operators keep DateStr
in sync with the value of Date.
If DATEDEBUG is not defined,
TDATETIME is the same as TDateTime.
Your developmental application with debugging turn on,
could define DATEDEBUG allowing you to monitor DateStr.
Your production application would not define DATEDEBUG and
it would perform as TDateTime. You might need to overload
additional operators depending on your application.
*/
#ifdef DATEDEBUG
#define TDATETIME TDebugDateTime
class TDebugDateTime
{
TDateTime Date;
AnsiString DateStr;
public:
TDebugDateTime() {}
TDebugDateTime(unsigned short year,
unsigned short month,
unsigned short day)
{
Date = TDateTime(year,month,day);
DateStr = DateToStr(Date);
}
~TDebugDateTime() {}
operator TDateTime& ()
{
return Date;
}
TDateTime operator=(TDateTime date)
{
Date = date;
DateStr = DateToStr(Date);
return Date;
}
};
#else
#define TDATETIME TDateTime
#endif
int main()
{
/*
Set breakpoints at lines A, B and C.
You can see the value of DateStr change.
*/
TDateTime Today = Date();
TDATETIME Date(1999,12,31);
::Sleep(0); // Line A.
Date = IncDay(Date,1);
::Sleep(0); // Line B.
Date = Today;
::Sleep(0); // Line C.
return 0;
}
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Irwin Aschkenas
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:45 am Post subject: Re: TDateTime |
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Thanks for the possible solution. It just blows my mind how Borland can
have defined their own type TDateTime and not provide a way to view it in
the debugger. I am surprised not many people have complained and I guess
they haven't since they are up to version 6.
"Danzer" <danzer (AT) REMOVEknology (DOT) net> wrote
| Quote: | Irwin Aschkenas wrote:
Is there anyway to view a TDateTime in the debugger as a formatted date
string instead of a float ?
Thanks
// A small application to illustrate a possible solution.
#include
#include
#define DATEDEBUG
/*
If DATEDEBUG is defined,
TDebugDateTime acts as a wrapper for TDateTime.
The constructor and operators keep DateStr
in sync with the value of Date.
If DATEDEBUG is not defined,
TDATETIME is the same as TDateTime.
Your developmental application with debugging turn on,
could define DATEDEBUG allowing you to monitor DateStr.
Your production application would not define DATEDEBUG and
it would perform as TDateTime. You might need to overload
additional operators depending on your application.
*/
#ifdef DATEDEBUG
#define TDATETIME TDebugDateTime
class TDebugDateTime
{
TDateTime Date;
AnsiString DateStr;
public:
TDebugDateTime() {}
TDebugDateTime(unsigned short year,
unsigned short month,
unsigned short day)
{
Date = TDateTime(year,month,day);
DateStr = DateToStr(Date);
}
~TDebugDateTime() {}
operator TDateTime& ()
{
return Date;
}
TDateTime operator=(TDateTime date)
{
Date = date;
DateStr = DateToStr(Date);
return Date;
}
};
#else
#define TDATETIME TDateTime
#endif
int main()
{
/*
Set breakpoints at lines A, B and C.
You can see the value of DateStr change.
*/
TDateTime Today = Date();
TDATETIME Date(1999,12,31);
::Sleep(0); // Line A.
Date = IncDay(Date,1);
::Sleep(0); // Line B.
Date = Today;
::Sleep(0); // Line C.
return 0;
}
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Jonathan Benedicto
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:53 am Post subject: Re: TDateTime |
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Inspect this in the debugger :
dt.DateTimeString() replacing dt with your TDateTime variable.
--
Jonathan
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