Re: Date pickers
Re: Date pickers
- Subject: Re: Date pickers
- From: Robert DuToit <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 12:21:10 -0500
On Feb 9, 2010, at 9:17 AM, Deivy Petrescu wrote:
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> On 09/02/2010, at 08:54 , Robert DuToit wrote:
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>> Pretty cool.
>>
>> So a quick AS date to ASOC date would be:
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>> set theNSdate to current application's class "NSDate"'s |date|()
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>> set myFormatter to current application's class "NSDateFormatter"'s alloc()'s init()
>> myFormatter's setDateFormat_("yyyy-MM-dd H:m:s")
>> set theDateString to (myFormatter's stringFromDate_(theNSdate))
>>
>> do shell script "echo " & quoted form of (theDateString as text) & "| xxd -u -p"
>> set theDate to (run script "get «data isot" & (text 1 thru -3 of the result) & "»") as date
>> log (theDate as string)
>>
>> However I suppose this is not international proof. But still nice.
>>
>> Rob _______________________________________________
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> Rob,
> I think it is locale dependent.
> When you write "as date" I think it returns the value according to your specific settings.
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> Thanks to you guys, I had a nice lesson.
>
> I am not going to use this now, but as a matter of curiosity I tried to set the DatePicker to a certain date.
> I could not do it. May be it should be formatted or something, but all calls seem to return an error.
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> Ahh! Rob, when you used "stringFromDate" you used "stringFromDate_" how did you know to add the underscore?
> I did not see anything about it.
You replace the colons in OBJc methods with an underscore in ASOC methods.
so
NSString *formattedDateString = [dateFormatter stringFromDate:someDate];
becomes
set formattedDateString to dateFormatter's stringFromDate_(someDate)
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> Sorry being a pest, but I am beginning to expand my views of programming to include a decent UI.
I'm new to all this myself so no problem.
>
> Thanks very much!
Sure.
Rob
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> Deivy Petrescu
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