DateField

[antonio5982]

Hi guys!
I have a question about DateField: Can I set a date using a String?
I mean:
String s = "2005-01-05" or String s = "2005-Jan-05"
DateField date = new DateField("Date",DateField.DATE);

Can I set "date" using the String s?

Could u tell me how I could do it?

thank you in advance

antonio

[antonio5982]

I managed using the method DateParser.parse

The problem is that in order to use this method I have to import com.sun.midp.io.DateParser;
it works in the emulator but I cannot install the application in my mobile phone becasue of this "import"!

What I have to do? I think I should add some library, which one?

antonio

[codykonior]

If you wanted to create your own parser (and didn't want to calculate the milliseconds yourself, though I don't see why not) you could create a Calendar object and use myCalendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, month); etc to create a new Calendar object and then myCalendar.getTime() to turn it into a Date object.

As for you antonio, I really don't think DateParser is part of the CLDC or MIDP spec (it may be part of CDC instead of CLDC, I'm not sure).

The good news is that now that J2ME is open source you could download the source code for it and hack it into your own code. Look for the PhoneME project (it's run by Sun themselves) on a search engine. It might be in there. Let us know how you go.