In Xojo I often need to add in a comment about when I modified something or what I was working on
And the comment needs to be in a particular format – and it needs the current date & time as part of the comment
And, I want to be able to insert these EASILY into whatever code I’m working on right where the insertion point is<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To do this I came up with this IDE Script that I saved in my Scripts dir next to the IDE<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dim stripped As String\nstripped = DoShellCommand(\"echo \"\"\/\/ Updated `\/bin\/date \"\"+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z\"\"` -- NJP\"\" | \/usr\/bin\/tr -C -d \"\"[:print:]\"\" | \/usr\/bin\/pbcopy -Prefer txt\")\n\nDoCommand(\"Paste\")\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\nthis will make use of the DoShellCommand to get the unix shell to write a line with the current date in it, copy that to the clipboard, and then paste it right where the insertion point is <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You can modify the unix shell commands used to do just about whatever else you want<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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In Xojo I often need to add in a comment about when I modified something or what I was working onAnd the comment needs to be in a particular format – and it needs the current date & time as part of the commentAnd, I want to be able to insert these EASILY into whatever … <\/p>\n