First of all about the picture.
What you have used to
see as Breakpoint, means in this task list a ToDo task. The first date is
the date you added the Task to ToDo, the second date is when you finished
the task.
Before we start you have to choose your Todo file. Just
create an empty text file, in the program I will refer to it as
[filename], remember to replace it with your file name. The path to
the file will appear as [path] in the tutorial and so you have to
replace it as well with your path.
An example to [filename] is:
Todo.txt
An example to [path] is:
C:\Todo.txt
Lets start with the real thing now.
Go to
your macro file (.dsm) and add the following sub to it: <CODE>
Sub OpenTodoList()
'DESCRIPTION: Opens the todo.
Documents.Open "[path]", "Text"
End Sub
Remember to replace the path with the path to your text file just like in the example
When you run it, the macro will open the text file which you
will be using as your ToDo file.
If you wish create now a button on the
toolbar of "Visual C++" that will run this macro.
Now lets go for
the second macro, again go to the macro file and add the following Sub to
it: <CODE>
Sub WriteDate()
'DESCRIPTION: Writes the date, duh.
ShortName=ActiveDocument.Name
If ShortName="[filename]" Then
Line = ActiveDocument.Selection.CurrentLine
Column = ActiveDocument.Selection.CurrentColumn
'Finding the bottom
ActiveDocument.Selection.SelectAll
Bottom = ActiveDocument.Selection.BottomLine
ActiveDocument.Selection.GoToLine Line
'Find the place for the date
Do
ActiveDocument.Selection.LineDown
ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine
ActiveDocument.Selection.CharRight dsExtend
Loop Until ActiveDocument.Selection = "*"
ActiveDocument.Selection.LineUp
ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine
ActiveDocument.Selection = " (" & CStr(Date) & ")"
'Find the place to do the BreakPoint
ActiveDocument.Selection.LineDown
Do
ActiveDocument.Selection.LineUp
ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine
ActiveDocument.Selection.CharRight dsExtend
Loop Until ActiveDocument.Selection = "*"
ExecuteCommand "DebugToggleBreakpoint"
'Moving back
ActiveDocument.Selection.GoToLine Line
ActiveDocument.Selection.CharRight dsMove, Column
Else
ExecuteCommand "DebugToggleBreakpoint"
End If
Remember to replace the path with the path to your text file just like in the example
This is the important macro of the program, it will simulate
regular Breakpoint for your programs, however, for your ToDo file it will
work in a special way.
To continue go to Visual C++ costumize and
assign the key F9 to that macro (WriteDate in this tutorial). Now you try
to use F9 in your programs and you'll see that it works as usual (just to
make sure).
The format of the tasks in the ToDo file has to be in a
specific format if you want it to work as planned:
- Every task has to
start with the '*' character.
- Tasks can be longer then one line, the
'*' character says when a new task begins.
- There should be no space
lines between tasks (As on the picture).
- The last line of the macro
should be any line that begins with '*'. In my picture it is:
"*************** END OF TASKS *************".
After you write your
task, mark it as ToDo by having the marker anywhere on the task and
pressing F9. The Task will be marked with the Breakpoint mark and the
starting date will appear in the end of the task.
When you finish the
task move the marker to there and press F9 again. The Breakpoint mark will
be removed and the ending date will be added to the end of the
task.
TIP: You might want to cause the finished mark to
disappear instead.
I hope that you
found this tutorial helping and if you did then please vote for it.
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