Problem with DateChooser from JCalendar

[raghav singh]

Hi there,

1.How do i obtain and store the date chosen by the user from DateChooser as it is clearly not simple as a JTextField?
2.How do i test for null value for DateChooser.... this is for validation?

For your information i already search on google. Not finding anything related to my two problems.

Thanks in Advance

[K. Tsang]

JCalendar is clearly not part of Java Swing API.

What does the JCalendar API say? I believe it will be a java.util.Date

[Campbell Ritchie]

Which date chooser? Do you mean Toedter's? That is really easy to use. I think it does return a java.util.Date. You would only get null from it if you close the window without pushing the OK button (or similar).

It returns an object of some sort, so you can simply check
if (date != null)
Or you can put it in a loop
while ((date = JCalendar.showSomeDialogOrOther()) == null) ...

[Darryl Burke]

If you're on Java 8 and want something that uses the new Date/Time API, you can try my Local Date Combo. It doesn't allow setting a null value though,.

[raghav singh]

Ok .Thank you for your helps guys . I have found the solution to my two problems. Here they are in case someone get similar problem in the future:

1.To get date for dateChoooser use this : new java.sql.Date(dateChooser.getDate().getTime()) in my case i needed the time in sql format because i am connected to a sql database
2.To Test For Null Value use this: dateChooser.getDate() == null

Actually what help me was i went to read the dataChooser class(http://grepcode.com/file/repo1.maven.org/maven2/com.luuuis/jcalendar-tz/1.3.3-3/com/toedter/calendar/JDateChooser.java#JDateChooser.%3Cinit%3E%28java.util.Date%2Cjava.lang.String%29). Everything became clear after that.