question about customizing date format for DateItem

[zbc]

i use DateItem, i want to display the date in text field as "MM/DD/YY" format, but it is not included in DateDisplayFormat enum, how can i customize the date display format for DateItem??

[zbc]

it seems the DateUtil can help,
original code:

        firstDateChoice = new DateItem();
        firstDateChoice.setUseTextField(true);
        firstDateChoice.setPickerIconSrc(...........);
        firstDateChoice.setPickerIconWidth(26);
        firstDateChoice.setPickerIconHeight(26);

it can not display the date as format of "MM/DD/YY". So i change the code to:

        DateUtil.setShortDateDisplayFormatter(new DateDisplayFormatter() {

            public String format(Date date) {
                if (date == null) {
                    return null;
                }
                //you'll probably want to create the DateTimeFormat outside this method.
                //here for illustration purposes
                DateTimeFormat dateFormatter = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("MM/DD/YY");
                String format = dateFormatter.format(date);
                return format;
            }
        });


        firstDateChoice = new DateItem();
        firstDateChoice.setUseTextField(true);
        firstDateChoice.setPickerIconSrc(...........);
        firstDateChoice.setPickerIconWidth(26);
        firstDateChoice.setPickerIconHeight(26);

unfortunately, wheather i choose any date, the text field ALWAYS display "08//", while i change to "DateUtil.setNormalDateDisplayFormatter" (regarding to the api document, i can not identify the differences of these two method.), it also does not follow the format i required.
who can help?

[wolfgang.schilling]

hi zbc,
guess i found kind of a solution:
Here is the code:

DateUtil.setNormalDateDisplayFormatter(new DateDisplayFormatter() {
	@Override
	public String format(Date date) {
		if (date == null) {
			return null;
		}
		final DateTimeFormat dateFormatter = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("dd.MM.yyyy | HH:mm");
		String format = dateFormatter.format(date);
		return format;
	}	
});

DateItem dateItem = new DateItem();
dateItem.setUseTextField(true);
dateItem.setAttribute("dateFormatter", "toNormalDate");

I guess the important point is to set "dateFormatter" to "toNormalDate" as mentioned in the documentation.