Re: [Adobe-source-devel] Handling dates

[Thomas W. <wi...@ac...>]

On Jan 19, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Sean Parent wrote:

> A quick glance at the sources and I see where missing a little bit  
> (but not much)...
>
> Internally, Adam operates on adobe::value_t for the values in cells  
> (these are similar to boost any - but the type requirements are a  
> bit stronger, the type passed to a value_t must be equality  
> comparable and if ADOBE_SERIALIZATION is defined then it must  
> support operator << on an ostream. The serialization should go  
> through the Adobe formatting code (but that's a loose requirement)  
> - ADOBE_SERIALIZATION predates the boost serialization code but it  
> isn't complete and although I like some of the ideas better we'll  
> likely replace it with boost serialization. For now, it is only  
> used for debugging.
>
> The virtual machine has a pair of callbacks for user defined  
> functions (one which takes named parameters and hands off a  
> dictionary_t, and one that takes unnamed parameters and hands off  
> an array_t) -
>
> So all you need to do is write the functions you need for your  
> dates in terms if the function interface for the virtual machine -  
> and plug it in to the (non-existent but trivial to add) interface  
> to Adam.

I've added the interface and added a bunch of functions using  
boost.date_time works beautifully.

Thanks!

Thomas


Thomas Witt
wi...@ac...