Java Development

[beenjaminnn]

Hi,

I'd like to create a date field with the day of the week. Currently I can make one with the day of month, month and year but I'd like to have one with the day of the week, day of month, month and year.

Right now I have:

DateField dateField = new DateField("Go to:",System.currentTimeMillis(), DateField.DATE);

 Can I adapt this to include the day of week too?

Ben

[MohammedAziz]

You can use Calender class to obtain what you require

http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/4.5.0api/java/util/Calendar.html

Thank you

[maadani]

Hi,

Check out the setFormat function with the DateFormat API:

http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/5.0.0api/net/rim/device/api/ui/component/DateField.html#se...

and :

http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/5.0.0api/net/rim/device/api/i18n/DateFormat.htm

E.

[beenjaminnn]

So something like this?

DateField dateField = new DateField("Go to:",System.currentTimeMillis(), DateField.DATE);
dateField.setFormat(DateFormat.DATE_LONG);

[maadani]

Actually, more like:

dateField.setFormat(DateFormat.getInstance(DateFormat.DATE_LONG));

Another option, which I prefer, is:

dateField.setFormat(new SimpleDateFormat("your Date Format Pattern Here"));

The simpleDateFormat class lets you define your own preferred date pattern:

http://www.blackberry.com/developers/docs/5.0.0api/net/rim/device/api/i18n/SimpleDateFormat.html

E.

[beenjaminnn]

Thank you,

But tha still doesn't seem to be working. I'm using Eclipse and it gives me the error

"Syntax error on token "setFormat", Identifier expected after this token"

I used dateField.setFormat(DateFormat.getInstance(DateFormat.DATE_LONG));

It seems to be a problem with setFormat, not anything else.