Setting the first day of the week in a Flex DateField control’s calendar

By Peter deHaan On December 20, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The following example shows how you can set the firstDayOfWeek property on the Flex DateField control to control whether the pop-up calendar starts on a Sunday (default) or a different day of the week.

Full code after the jump.

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Setting the DateChooser control’s dayNames property and firstDayOfWeek property

By Peter deHaan On August 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

This is kind of silly, but I was looking through the DateBase class today and figured “why not?”. This example takes a quick look at setting the DateChooser control’s dayNames property and switching between the default values (“S”, “M”, “T”, …, “S”) with the longer versions such as “Sun”, “Mon”, “Tue”, …, “Sat”, and the [...]

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Formatting dates using the DateFormatter

By Peter deHaan On July 30, 2007 · 2 Comments

Another basic little example showing how to format the text in a DateField control using the DateFormatter and the DateField control’s labelFunction property. This entry also shows the pretty basic trick of creating a separate ActionScript class file that holds the day names as constants so you don’t constantly have to think whether Monday is [...]

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Changing the calendar layout in the DateChooser component using the firstDayOfWeek parameter

By Peter deHaan On July 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment

A brief example of changing the first day of the week for the DateChooser control using the firstDayOfWeek property.

Full code after the jump.

 

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