On Mar 12, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> I'm struggling with a dDateTextBox in my German environment:
> - at first the date gets displayed in German format (dd.mm.yyyy),
> e.g. 31.12.2008 (that's clearly locale dependent, same as
> datetime.datetime.strftime(locale.nl_langinfo(locale.D_FMT)))
> - the hotkey popup is always in English (ok, I could set ToolTipText
> myself, but for what do we have locales?)
That particular string is localized, but unless you have a
translation, it displays in the default English. According to the
translation site, German is the farthest along, but still only about
1/3 done.
https://translations.launchpad.net/dabo/trunk/+pots/dabo
> - if I press a hotkey or leave the box, the displayed date gets
> switched to mm.dd.yyyy (12.31.2008)
That sounds like a bug. A quick look at the code shows that we still
have some US-format defaults being used for pattern recognition in
date parsing. These were necessary a while ago, but completely wrong
with the current date-handling code. I will try to look into it, but
I'm on the road now (leaving for PyCon in the morning!), and may not
get to it right away.
> - if I press another key, e.g. +, it tries to take the displayed date
> as dd.mm. and generates an error ("Invalid date specified")
> - after that the hotkeys won't work any more
Yeah, that follows from the last point. The value has been ruined by
then.
> I couldn't find a hook for the date display format - I'd prefer ISO
> yyyy-mm-dd, because you can feed that directly to MySQL or the like,
> but any reliable format would do for the moment.
We abandoned direct formatting of dates in textboxes a while ago:
there were simply too many ways to mess it up. Now we do not mess with
the display at all; we simply use what Python gives us, which will be
dependent on how your machine is set up.
> Perhaps it would make sense to base dDateTextBox on
> wx.DatePickerCtrl? (Didn't try yet if it would fit my needs.)
That's another option that wasn't available when we created
dDateTextBox. I don't know if it would be more flexible as far as
formatting is concerned, as I really haven't used it that much.
-- Ed Leafe
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