Re: JSpinner and date / time

From:
"Michael Dunn" <m_odunn@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.gui
Date:
Tue, 2 May 2006 20:39:29 +1000
Message-ID:
<445736e2$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au>
"Kova" <kova1337@REMOVEgmail.com> wrote in message news:e362rh$p53$1@ss408.t-com.hr...

Hello.
After strugeling through APIs and official tutorials I finally though I understand the thing, but
nooooo... I'm trying to make my spinner spin from 00:00 to 59:59 (mm:ss) with seconds increasing
by 1. Can anybody tell me why stuff below dosen't work? I've run out of patience for testing and
reading over and over. Thank you.

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import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class TFrame extends JFrame {
    public TFrame() {
        super("TEST");
        setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
        calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
        Date startDate = calendar.getTime();
        calendar.add(Calendar.MINUTE, 60);
        Date maxDate = calendar.getTime();
        JSpinner spinner = new JSpinner(new SpinnerDateModel(startDate,
                                startDate, maxDate, Calendar.SECOND));
        spinner.setEditor(new JSpinner.DateEditor(spinner, "mm:ss"));
        add(spinner);
        setBounds(0,0,200,100);
        setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new TFrame();
    }

} // end of class
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...dosen't work, spiner is always at 00:00. :(


The SpinnerDateModel changed after about 1.4.0
 it now has a mind of it's own

change to null start/end arguments, and the +/- buttons work
new SpinnerDateModel(startDate,null, null, Calendar.SECOND)
it will now go from 00:00 to 59:59 then with a +, it will roll-over to 00:00

but the next problem is that Calendar.SECOND will be ignored as the field to +/-
it will default to the left-most displayed field - year, day, minute, whatever
place your cursor anywhere after the : and the Calendar.SECOND field will +/-

a bit more info here
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6321570

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