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General => Feature requests => Topic started by: StDH on February 02, 2015, 05:41:01 pm

Title: [System] getDateTime
Post by: StDH on February 02, 2015, 05:41:01 pm

i would like to pull request to add function getDateTime inside system module.

examples of use:
 naming screenshots.
 showing time.
 save time to see when did you last played game.

Clock.hpp

static std::string getDateTime(const char* _format = "%d.%m.%Y - %H:%M:%S");

Title: Re: [System] getDateTime
Post by: Hiura on February 02, 2015, 05:55:06 pm

You can achieve exactly the same thing with C++ and no extra dependencies. http://ideone.com/I6M5pa + std::strftime

Title: Re: [System] getDateTime
Post by: StDH on February 02, 2015, 05:56:36 pm

well, i've already done the code, i just wanted to make this simplier.

EDIT: https://github.com/StDH/SFML/compare/LaurentGomila:master...master

Title: Re: [System] getDateTime
Post by: Hiura on February 02, 2015, 05:59:24 pm

It's just my own opinion but this would better fit on the wiki than in SFML.

Title: Re: [System] getDateTime
Post by: Hapax on February 02, 2015, 06:12:31 pm

The clock - in the SFML sense - is more of a stopwatch than an actual clock. I think current time of day etc. should be kept outside of SFML's Clock class.

Title: Re: [System] getDateTime
Post by: Laurent on February 02, 2015, 08:49:07 pm

Why would SFML add an API to wrap a simple standard call?

Title: Re: [System] getDateTime
Post by: StDH on February 03, 2015, 05:47:31 am

Since you can get size of your screen i was thinking about function that returns formatted time.

Title: Re: [System] getDateTime
Post by: Laurent on February 03, 2015, 07:45:53 am

Getting size of screen requires OS-specific calls that cannot be done directly with portable code. Getting current date is directly available in the standard library. That's the difference.