< mx:DateField styleName=”dateField”/>
Things working pretty fine now.

Please reply !

You could do something like the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
        layout="vertical"
        verticalAlign="middle"
        backgroundColor="white">

    <mx:CheckBox id="checkBox"
            label="enabled"
            selected="true" />

    <mx:DateField id="df"
                enabled="{checkBox.selected}"
                disabledSkin="{null}" />

</mx:Application>

Peter

That is what I ended up using was the labelFunction, but I still think that the DateField should be able to handle the “M/D/YYYY” in the formatString, so thanks for filing the bug.

Brixel

I filed a bug in the public Flex bug base, http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/SDK-15386. Feel free to subscribe to bug updates or add any comments.

I’m not actually sure it is a “bug”. According to the Flex 3 docs, the DateField formatString property can contain any combination of “MM”, “DD”, “YY”, “YYYY”, delimiter, and punctuation characters.

UPDATE: Actually, another solution may be to use a custom labelFunction on the DateField, see “Setting a custom label function on a Flex DateField control”.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="vertical">

    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            private function dateField_labelFunc(item:Date):String {
                return dateFormatter.format(item);
            }
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>

    <mx:DateFormatter id="dateFormatter" formatString="M/D/YYYY" />

    <mx:DateField id="dateField"
            initialize="dateField.selectedDate = new Date(2008,3,1);"
            labelFunction="dateField_labelFunc"  />

</mx:Application>

Thanks,
Peter

After work I tried to recreate it locally to submit the example, but was unable to reproduce. So I became suspicous of working over the VPN and waited until this morning to try it again locally. It worked fine this morning, so it must have been some sort of display issue ( which I’ve noticed both locally and remote a few times with Flex ).

That said, off topic, I did run across something with the formatString property of the DateField. I noticed it doesn’t support the common short date format “M/D/YYYY”. It formats the date as “MM/DD/YYYY” and removes the “/” slash separators. So:

myDateField.formatString = “M/D/YYYY”;
myDateField.selectedDate = new Date();

Would display as: 04252008
Instead of: 4/25/2008

This I can reproduce at will. Is this a known issue already or should I submit? I did some poking and was unable to find it as a known issue.

Would you mind filing a bug at http://bugs.adobe.com/flex/ (file it in the Flex SDK project and the “mx:DateField” component). Also, if you could attach a small, reproducible test case to the bug, that would help out a lot.

Finally, if you post the bug number here, maybe a few of us here can vote and subscribe to the bug. :)

Thanks,
Peter