JDateComboBox
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Swing ComboBox with calendar pop-up derived from PSwing DateComboBox
About
This package displays a Look&Feel independent Swing Component
that represents a fully localised and editable JComboBox with calendar pop-up for Java 1.5 and later.
Localisation is automated and the interface most easy to use.
But look yourself at this screen shot of Japanese, German locale and CDE/Motif, Metal and System Look & Feel on my English Mac OS X:
JDateComboBox supersedes PSwing DateComboBox which was intended for English language and a small set of Look &
Feels (WinLAF, Motif, Metal) only and worked on many platforms
with Java 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4.
License Agreement
The package is distributed under LGPL 3 and can be used freely with commercial
software.
Code used to draw the JApplet displaying the Swing JDateComboBox shown above
public class Applet extends JApplet {
public Applet() {
Panel panel;
setLayout(new FlowLayout());
// Locales to be looped through
Locale[] loc = new Locale[3];
loc[0] = Locale.getDefault();
loc[2] = Locale.GERMANY;
loc[1] = Locale.JAPANESE;
int i = 0;
// loop through Look and Feels
for (UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo laf : UIManager
.getInstalledLookAndFeels()) {
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(laf.getClassName());
Locale.setDefault(loc[i++ % 3]);
panel = new Panel();
getContentPane().add(panel);
} catch (Exception e) {
}
}
setVisible(true);
}
class Panel extends JPanel {
private JDateComboBox date = null;
public Panel() {
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel = new JPanel();
date = new JDateComboBox(new Date());
date.addFormat(DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM));
panel.add(new JLabel("JDateComboBox:"));
panel.add(date);
add(panel);
}
}
}
History
This package is roughly based upon the LGPLed PSwing DateComboBox from 2003 which is extended here and tuned to be independent of the
ComboBoxUI used in the old version.
This way it fixes some of the problems caused by unsupported platforms like MacOS X
and can be considered platform independent. Since much of the underlying code has changed I
do no longer include the PSwing class but refer to the original copyright holder in both
classes derived from his code.
Last Updated: 3 Mar 2008
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