Flex "Verbal Month" date

Hi All,

If you are working with Adobe flex, you probably know that the framework does not have a function such as DateTime.Now().ToString().

Because of that, displaying a friendly date to the user is impossible unless you write a small extension to the getDate() function in flex.

This is The way to go

var todayDate:String = "";

private function INIT():void{
    getCurrentDate();
}

private var monthLabels:Array = new Array("Jan",
                                          "Feb",
                                          "Mar",
                                          "Apr",
                                          "May",
                                          "Jun",
                                          "Jul",
                                          "Aug",
                                          "Sep",
                                          "Oct",
                                          "Nov",
                                          "Dec");

private function getCurrentDate():void{
    var date:Date = new Date();
    todayDate = date.getDate().toString() + " " + monthLabels[date.getMonth()].toString() + " " + date.getFullYear().toString();
    datePickerButton.label=todayDate;
}

That’s it, its that easy to get a date from flex.

You can of curse extend it some more in order to get the day.

← Avi Tzurel

Flex "Verbal Month" date