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Re: JDateChooser setEnabled Color

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In article <isgt21$hum$1@speranza.aioe.org>, Tom <tom400f@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 13:29:22 -0400, John B. Matthews wrote:
> 
> > As an aside, I was recently critical of the demo's layout:
> > 
> > <http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java.programmer/msg/39c807ad8e131973>
> > 
> > Line 132 in com.toedter.calendar.demo.JCalendarDemo is the problem:
> > 
> >     splitPane.setDividerLocation(190);
> > 
> > Simply remove it to allow pack() to do the right thing.
> 
> Ah - didn't realise it was only the demo program you were unhappy 
> about...

Honestly, I didn't know either. :-) It was just the first thing I ran 
across, and I feared it was an ill omen. Of course, the more I use it, 
the more I like it.

> Anyway, the aforementioned additions were:
> - nullText property - if the JDC's date is null then display any null
> text, for example "Open Ended"
> 
> - selectOnFocus property - optionally select the text when the editor 
> gets the focus
> 
> - dateVerifier property - an interface that JDC calls back on to 
> allow client code to indicate whether a date is selectable; calendar 
> buttons are disabled for invalid dates and the editors skip to the 
> next valid date in the "direction of travel"
> 
> - use action map to (ctrl-c) popup the calendar; (ctrl-n) set to null
> 
> - provide access to the DateFormat inside so you can (eg) set its 
> timezone

The dateVerifier looked especially appealing, although I'd since 
reverted to the stock 1.3.3. It's clear you've worked with it 
extensively; I'd welcome any comment you have on my response to the OP.

> I'm in the process of pulling together other people's mods and will
> github all this soon...

Excellent.

-- 
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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  Re: JDateChooser setEnabled Color "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-05 13:29 -0400
    Re: JDateChooser setEnabled Color Tom <tom400f@gmail.com> - 2011-06-05 21:39 +0000
      Re: JDateChooser setEnabled Color "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-06-06 00:02 -0400
        Re: JDateChooser setEnabled Color Tom <tom400f@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 19:53 +0000
    Re: JDateChooser setEnabled Color Biagio <software@notario.it> - 2011-06-06 02:15 -0700
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