As you say... not pretty.
mc
On 17 Jul 2006 at 14:59, Shing Hing Man wrote:
> It is not very pretty. You could try the following.
>
> <component id="dateField" type="Insert">
> <binding name="value" value="myclass.mydate"/>
>
> <binding name="format">
> ognl:new
> java.text.SimpleDateFormat(getMessages().getMessage('format_date'))
> </binding>
>
> </component>
>
> Shing
> --- Murray Collingwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > I'm a little new to Tapestry so I may be missing
> > something, happy for anybody to point me in
> > the right direction. I'm currently running Tapestry
> > 4.0.2
> >
> > I want to standardise my date format for the entire
> > application to dd/MM/yyyy. I decided that
> > the best place to do this while allowing for
> > internationalisation is to add it to my
> > app.properties
> > file. I added a few other formats while I was
> > there, so I had something like the following:
> >
> > # Generic formats
> > format_date=dd/MM/yyyy
> > format_time=HH:mm
> > format_pct0=##0%
> > format_pct2=##0.##%
> > format_currency=$#,###,##0.00
> >
> > Then I found that in order to display a date in this
> > format I was writing 7 lines of java code for
> > each page where a date was displayed (most of
> > them)...along with 1 more line in the .page
> > file for each date to be displayed.
> >
> > When I wanted to edit a date again using this format
> > I had 4 lines per page and 1 line per
> > field.
> >
> > This only provides the most basic of editing (I
> > haven't allowed for any error processing yet)
> > and while the number of lines is not large it did
> > seem to me that there were different methods
> > being employed to format the date for display and
> > others for edit and validation.
> >
> > As I began, I may have missed something but it does
> > seem a little messy at the moment.
> > Does anybody have a better method of achieving this
> > generic formating?
> >
> > Wouldn't it be nice if....I could specify formats in
> > my message catalogue and then simply
> > apply them to my components with a single line of
> > code? eg
> >
> > a) displaying a date value:
> >
> > <component id="dateField" type="Insert">
> > <binding name="value" value="myclass.mydate"/>
> > <binding name="format"
> > value="message:format_date"/>
> > </component>
> >
> > b) editing a date value:
> >
> > <component id="dateField" type="DatePicker">
> > <binding name="displayName"
> > value="message:mydate_label"/>
> > <binding name="value"
> > value="myclass.mydate"/>
> > <binding name="format"
> > value="message:format_date"/>
> > <binding name="validators"
> > value="validators:required"/>
> > </component>
> >
> >
> > Is this possible?
> >
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