Hi, We have applications that use the current date and time at places spread around the code. For normal operations, that works very nicely. However, we find that for (auto) testing, it would be very convenient if we could trick the application into believing it is some other date/time, so that we can test if certain behaviours work the way we would like to automatically. Currently, these tests take a lot of time because we actually need to manually adjust the system date and time, do some stuff, then adjust again, etc.
It would be really confortable if there was some control to set a date/time offset (so the time keeps running) or a fixed date/time to be returned from currentDate(), currentTime() or currentDateTime() respectively. I guess access to such a thing does not belong in the main Qt classes, but is really a testing tool, so perhaps it could find refuge in QtTest somewhere. Would a contribution adding such a thing stand any chance of being accepted, or would this be considered out of scope or even unwanted? An alternative might be to hook the windows kernel API, but that may be much tricker to get right and may have unforseen consequences for the code injected by Squish doing the actual testing. André -- _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development