DateItem / DateTimeItem formats

[pm]

Hello,

I'm using SmartGWT 2.1 and am having issues with date / datetime formats.

I need different custom (European dd.mm.yyyy style) display and input formats for DateItems and DateTimeItems (one with the time for the latter, obviously). I have set the date formats globally:

DateUtil.setShortDateDisplayFormatter(new MyDateFormat());
DateUtil.setNormalDateDisplayFormatter(new MyDateFormat());

but this sets the date formats for both DateItem and DateTimeItem. Is there a way of setting different custom formats for the two types of date inputs? Could I for example set different short and normal formats, and somehow make DateItem use the short one and DateTimeItem use the normal one? Or should I be setting the formats for every DateItem and DateTimeItem manually?

If so, how do I set a custom date formatter? The setDateFormatter method seems to accept only a few predefined DateDisplayFormats.

TY,

-PM

[pm]

I came up with an evil solution. Please don't make me actually use it :).

-PM

public class MyDateFormat implements DateDisplayFormatter, DateInputFormatter {

    DateTimeFormat dtf = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm");
    DateTimeFormat df = DateTimeFormat.getFormat("dd.MM.yyyy");

    public String format(Date date) {
        if(date == null) {
            return null;
        }
        String ret = dtf.format(date);
        if(ret.endsWith(" 00:00")){
            ret = ret.substring(0, ret.indexOf(" 00:00"));
        }
        return ret;
    }

    public Date parse(String string) {
        if(string == null){
            return null;
        }
        Date ret;
        try{
            ret = dtf.parse(string);
        } catch (Exception ex){
            ret = df.parse(string);
        }
        return ret;
    }
}