Your way doesn't work, mine does (or at least, should; I haven't explicitly tested it).
Performance wise there is no issue to worry about. Jörn On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Jaggi<[email protected]> wrote: > > just so i'm understanding stuff right. Whats the difference between > your way and my way and how much difference does it make on resources. > I'm guess your saying i should do it this way: > > > $('#endDate').datepicker({ > dateFormat: 'dd-mm-yy', > beforeShow: function(){ > $(this).datepicker("option", { minDate: > $('#startDate').datepicker > ('getDate'), > > maxDate: $('#startDate').datepicker('getDate') }); > } > }).attr('readonly', 'readonly'); > > doesn't this way use more resources as i have to make an extra call to > $(this)? > > > On Aug 20, 8:00 pm, Jörn Zaefferer <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Put the code I mentioned inside the beforeShow callback! >> >> Jörn >> >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Jaggi<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > the reason i use beforeShow is because doing it your way sets it when >> > the page loads, now my users will come in and pick a start date and >> > they could change this an infinite amount of times and i need the end >> > date to reflect that each time. I believe your way only initializes it >> > once. Thanks for the reply regarding the maxDate, looks like i'll have >> > to do it the hard way then. Maybe something to add to the next version >> > of jquery :). >> >> > On Aug 20, 3:11 pm, Jörn Zaefferer <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> The main problem here is that the datepicker doesn't, or only barely, >> >> expose its date-parsing abilities. So for that to work, you have to >> >> get the date, transform it into something where you can add two >> >> months, transform it back into something the datepicker understands, >> >> and set that as the maxDate. >> >> >> Or your usage of beforeShow is rubbish. Instead of returning something >> >> which gets ignored by the datepicker, you actually need to set these >> >> options: $(this).datepicker("option", { minDate: ..., maxDate: ... }); >> >> >> Jörn >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Jaggi<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> > I have two fields a start date and end date. What i've done is set the >> >> > minDate of start date to today and then i set the minDate of end date >> >> > to whatever startDate is set to. This all works fine. The issue is >> >> > with setting maxDate of end date. I want to set it to 2months in the >> >> > future of whatever the minDate is set to (so basically 2months ahead >> >> > of the start date). Everything i've tried to do this has resulted in >> >> > random results mostly in disabling any selecting of the date. >> >> >> > [code] >> >> > $('#endDate').datepicker({ >> >> > dateFormat: 'dd-mm-yy', >> >> > beforeShow: function(){ >> >> > return{ minDate: >> >> > $('#startDate').datepicker('getDate'), >> >> > maxDate: >> >> > $('#startDate').datepicker('getDate') + '+2m'} >> >> > } >> >> > }).attr('readonly', 'readonly'); >> >> > [/code] >> >> >> > this is an example of my code, the maxDate setting doesn't work but >> >> > thought i'd just give an example. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery UI" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-ui?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
