Need help in setting mask as yyyyMMdd in dateItem

[agastya]

Hi,

Can anyone help in setting up the mask for text typing in DateItem as yyyyMMdd. i wrote these functions setNormalDateDisplayFormatter and setShortDateDisplayFormatter. But they are working only for picker.

DateUtil.setNormalDateDisplayFormatter(new DateDisplayFormatter() {

			public String format(Date date) {
				if (date == null) {
					return null;
				}
				return DateTimeFormat.getFormat("yyyyMMdd").format(date);
			}
		});
		DateUtil.setShortDateDisplayFormatter(new DateDisplayFormatter() {

			public String format(Date date) {
				if (date == null) {
					return null;
				}
				return DateTimeFormat.getFormat("yyyyMMdd").format(date);
			}

		});

this is the code i tried for masking which is not working as i want

DateItem date = new DateItem();
		date.setTitle("Loan Date*");
		date.setUseTextField(true);
date.setDateFormatter(DateDisplayFormat.TOJAPANSHORTDATE );
		date.setMaskDateSeparator("");//i tried with null and ""
		date.setUseMask(true);

Can anyone pls help me.

Thanks

[davidj6]

A date format without a separator is not currently supported.