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
1: var todayDate:String = "";
2:
3: private function INIT():void{
4: getCurrentDate();
5: }
6:
7: private var monthLabels:Array = new Array("Jan",
8: "Feb",
9: "Mar",
10: "Apr",
11: "May",
12: "Jun",
13: "Jul",
14: "Aug",
15: "Sep",
16: "Oct",
17: "Nov",
18: "Dec");
19:
20: private function getCurrentDate():void{
21: var date:Date = new Date();
22: todayDate = date.getDate().toString() + " " + monthLabels[date.getMonth()].toString() + " " + date.getFullYear().toString();
23: datePickerButton.label=todayDate;
24: }
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.
My name is Avi Tzurel. I'm a professional web developer from Israel. I spend most of my day developing both web products and RIA applications as well as imparting my experience onto others. I speak, teach and write about my passions, and develop applications according to what I preach. I specialize in Flex, Adobe Air, HTML, XHTML, Javascript, jQuery and other Javascript libraries, on the server side I do .net along side with Ruby on Rails. You can connect with me on Twitter or email me through the contact page on this blog.
