[Gambas-user] An utility component for Gambas

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 01/12/2014 19:11, T Lee Davidson a écrit :
> On 12/01/2014 08:48 AM, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to create a 'gb.util' component, written in Gambas, to collect
>> useful non-GUI programming routines that can't go directly into the
>> interpreter because it would make it too heavy.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> The difficulty will be to find the best interface (class name, method
>> name, where to put it) for that.
>>
>> For example, for the removing accents method, I extended the String
>> class. Logical... For directory methods, I created a new Shell static
>> class...
>>
>> [snip]
>
> I'm not sure if you are asking for thoughts on miscellaneous functions
> to put in a gb.Util component or thoughts on useful extensions to
> existing classes, or both. But...
>
> A. Format decimal numbers as octal:
> Public Sub Format(iDecimal as Integer) as String
>     Dim digit as Byte
>     Dim out as String
>     While (iDecimal > 0)
> 	  digit = iDecimal % 8
> 	  iDecimal /= 8
> 	  out = digit & out
>     Wend
>     Return out
> End

Maybe an Oct$() function inside the interpreter. Octal is normally not 
needed with Gambas. Do you have any use of that?

>
> B. It would be nice to be able to work with *nix-native timestamps.
> Perhaps this might be relatively easily accomplished by just a couple
> functions:
> 1. DateToTimestamp(dDate as Date) as Integer
> 2. TimestampToDate(iTimestamp as Integer) as Date
> Format$ should be able to take over from there.
>

Noted!

-- 
Benoît Minisini