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2007-01-26 11:35:07 PM
cppbuilder67
Hi all,
these data types are coming from Delphi as I could see in the Borland help.
I could see that the data type TDateTime that has the data element val from
type double.
But as I only need to have the date so I have used TDate class/type.
But in the help there is not described ahat is the type of TDate??
Normally it should be int because date in TDateTime is the integer part of
this data element.
But as I could see in my program it is still handled as double type... Why?
Cheers Marius
 

"Mauro" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message
typedef System::TDateTime TDate;
(and so is TTime for that matter). Therefore, TDate and TDateTime are
exactly identical (different in name only). The TDateTime class provies an
"operator int()" that will give you just the date portion if that's all you
want. You can call it explicitly:
TDate mydate;
int date = mydate.operator int();
or let the compiler call it implicitly:
int date = mydate;
- Dennis
 

"Mauro" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message
--- Classes.hpp ---
typedef System::TDateTime TDate;
typedef System::TDateTime TTime;
documentation applies to all three types.
Gambit
 

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