/// <summary>
/// October 19 2008
/// - changed this to a generic date, so its always a string
/// and a generic date class that loads it expecting day/month/year
/// and THEN it converts it to a DateTime
///
///
/// October 17
///
/// I was getting crashes on other machines with the timeline.
/// I assumed that this was because Machine A used DateFormat A
/// Machine B used DateFormat B
/// And parsing didn't work (the core DateTime.Parse)
///
/// I don't know if that is the issue but will try it.
///
/// Basically we take the datestring and somehow convert it?
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sDateString"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
static public DateTime SafeDateParse(string sDateString)
{
DateTime newDate = DateTime.Now;
newGenericDate genericDate = new newGenericDate();
genericDate.FromString(sDateString);
newDate = genericDate.AsDate;
return(newDate);
/*
* try
* {
* newDate = DateTime.Parse(sDateString);
* }
* catch (Exception )
* {
* // if fails we then try to do an exact parse
* try
* {
* newDate = DateTime.ParseExact(sDateString, "dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss tt", null);
* }
* catch (Exception ex)
* {
* Messag eBox.Show(String.Format("SafeDateParse error for {0} with this exception {1}", sDateString, ex.ToString()));
* }
* }
*/
}
public holiday(int Icon, string Text, newGenericDate _date, string Caption)
{
nIcon = Icon;
sText = Text;
date = _date;
sCaption = Caption;
}
/// <summary>
/// returns the number of days to this specific dates
/// </summary>
/// <param name="date"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public int DaysToStartingDate(newGenericDate date)
{
int nCount = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < date.Month - 1; i++)
{
nCount += mZoomInPanels[i];
}
nCount += date.Day;
return(nCount - 1);
}
/// <summary>
/// October 19 2008
/// - changed this to a generic date, so its always a string
/// and a generic date class that loads it expecting day/month/year
/// and THEN it converts it to a DateTime
///
///
/// October 17
///
/// I was getting crashes on other machines with the timeline.
/// I assumed that this was because Machine A used DateFormat A
/// Machine B used DateFormat B
/// And parsing didn't work (the core DateTime.Parse)
///
/// I don't know if that is the issue but will try it.
///
/// Basically we take the datestring and somehow convert it?
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sDateString"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static DateTime SafeDateParse(string sDateString)
{
DateTime newDate = DateTime.Now;
newGenericDate genericDate = new newGenericDate();
genericDate.FromString(sDateString);
newDate = genericDate.AsDate;
return newDate;
/*
try
{
newDate = DateTime.Parse(sDateString);
}
catch (Exception )
{
// if fails we then try to do an exact parse
try
{
newDate = DateTime.ParseExact(sDateString, "dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm:ss tt", null);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Messag eBox.Show(String.Format("SafeDateParse error for {0} with this exception {1}", sDateString, ex.ToString()));
}
}
*/
}
/* /// <summary>
* /// called from the appearance class if this is a plot type instead
* ///
* /// ?: How will dates be stored?
* /// </summary>
* public void SetToPlotOutline()
* {
* CalendarType = Appearance.calendertype.Plot;
* /*
* mZoomOutDetails = new string[]{"Introduction", "Rising Action", "Climax", "Conclusion"};
* mZoomInPanels = new int[]{2, 5, 2, 1};
* mZoomInPanelRules = new int[]{-1,-1,-1,-1};
* mZoomOutWidths = new int[]{3,3,3,3};
* nNumberOfZoomOutPanels = 4;
* MonthLabel = "Segment";
* DayLabel = "Moment";
* YearLabel = "None";
* HasYears = false;*/
//}
/// <summary>
/// adds days to the timeline
/// </summary>
/// <param name="date"></param>
/// <param name="nDays"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public newGenericDate AddDays(newGenericDate date, int nDays)
{
// logic behind adding days
// figure out if end of month
// : Day > MaxDaysForMonth
bool bIsMonthEnd = false;
bool bIsYearEnd = false;
// set new day
date.Day = date.Day + nDays;
if (date.Day < 1)
{
date.Month--;
// going back a year
if (date.Month < 1)
{
if (HasYears == true)
{
date.Month = ZoomOutDetails.Count;
date.Year--;
}
}
// error -handling
if (date.Month <= 0)
{
date.Month = 1;
date.Day = 1;
}
else
{
date.Day = ZoomInPanels[date.Month - 1];
}
}
if (date.Day > ZoomInPanels[date.Month - 1])
{
bIsMonthEnd = true;
}
if (bIsMonthEnd == true)
{
// if month++ would exceed number of months
// increment months
if (date.Month + 1 > ZoomOutDetails.Count)
{
bIsYearEnd = true;
}
}
if (bIsMonthEnd == true)
{
date.Day = 1;
date.Month++;
}
if (bIsYearEnd == true)
{
if (HasYears == true)
{
date.Month = 1;
date.Year++;
}
else
{
date.Month = date.Month - 2; // set month back to current month if this type of calendar does not have years
date.Day = ZoomInPanels[date.Month - 1];
}
}
return(date);
}