DateChooserBean, the definitive date field!
Published by admin on Sunday, May 31, 2009 - 23:48:51 - Filed under General, News, Announcements, Development, Plugins/beans, Servoy
I have finished today testing and packaging the first release of my DateChooserBean.
I think it is a valuable replacement for the Servoy field of displayType “CALENDAR” with its look dating from good old Java 1.1 :))
This bean took me a considerable amount of time to make, although my first idea was just to make a reusable component based on the nice JCalendar bean from http://www.toedter.com/en/jcalendar/ that I already used in some project.
When I discovered the IServoyAwareBean interface it seemed to be what I was looking for, but then I wanted my bean to be used just like any regular field, meaning that it HAD to be web compatible.
Now, go search for information on the Servoy implementation of Wicket…
I have looked everywhere in the forum, on the web, I even send some PM to a few members of the Servoy forum, and asked for help from Johan Compagner, with no tangible results.
The only thing I had was the sources from the TreeViewBean (an older version) that someone in Servoy send me a few months ago when I complained that there was no information or examples on how to build Wicket components for Servoy, which is still true.
Anyway, I did it, and I hope that people will enjoy it and use it.
It was for me a good challenge to get my head around a few design principles in doing Servoy beans with Swing AND Wicket components and make all this work seamlessly…
And it could serve as a showcase on how to build fully compatible Swing AND Wicket components for Servoy.
Just because I would really like to see more of these around…
