CustomDatePickerBinder alternatives

[ge0ffrey]

In the Pet clinic I found the CustomDatePickerBinder that uses JXDatePicker.

When I enabled it, it worked, but not good enough I think.

Have you considered support for nachocalendar?
http://nachocalendar.sourceforge.net/
It looks a lot more mature to me.

Spring RCP could have support for both, in a spring like way under
org.springframework.richclient.form.binding.swing. *:
- JXDatePickerDateBinder
- NachoCalendarDateBinder (the new default if it's any good)
- TheCurrentDefaultDateBinder (with better name)

[ge0ffrey]

It doesn't seem that hard, I can make it this weekend and add it as a JIRA issue I think

[oliverhutchison]

Go for it. I really dislike the current implementation of the JXDatePicker so I'm happy to commit any alternatives.

Please provide a unit test with your implementation.

Thanks,

Ollie

[ge0ffrey]

ok

I don't have much of an idea how and what to unit test, is there a similar unit test in spring-RCP I could mimic?

[oliverhutchison]

is there a similar unit test in spring-RCP I could mimic

ListBinderTests would be a good place to start.

Ollie

[ge0ffrey]

I am trying to integrate Nacho's DateField, but it seems as if it doesn't fire property change event's if the value changes.

Is there a workaround for that?

[benoitx]

Any progress? Do we have any alternative?

If I am right, by using JXDatePicker, the application requires both jndc.jar and jlfgr-1_0.jar... that would be 800KB saved... (unless something else in Spring RC is using jndc and jlfgr...)

Let us know...
Ta!

Benoit

[ge0ffrey]

Actually I have a working solution back home.

There was a bug with propertychanges in nachocalendar but I 've received a SNAPSHOT of the next version which solved it from the author.

The only problem is that my testcases fail because I am using a "simpleProperty" binding in my testcases and the binding subframework converts the Date objects to String objects somewhere, making them unequal.

Tonight or this weekend I 'll have another decent look at it and submit it as a patch in JIRA.

[ge0ffrey]

Patches created, see
http://opensource2.atlassian.com/pro...browse/RCP-204