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Prima::Widget::Date(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Prima::Widget::Date(3)

NAME

Prima::Widget::Date - date picker widget

SYNOPSIS

        use Prima qw(Application Widget::Date);
        my $mw = Prima::MainWindow->new;
        $mw->insert( 'Widget::Date' =>
                pack => { fill => 'x', pad => 20 },
        );
        run Prima;

DESCRIPTION

Standard date picker

API

Methods

Converts DATE to string representation according to the current "format" string
Returns a string to be used in "format", where the string is constructed in such a way to reflect regional date formatting preferences.

See also: "man 3 strftime, %x" .

Tries to extract date from STRING assuming it is constructed according to the current "format" string. Doesn't fail but values that could not be extracted are assigned to today's day/month/year instead.
Returns today's date in widgets [D,M,Y] format
Checks whether D, M, Y values are valid and within understood range; adjusts the values if not. Returns the final values.

Properties

Accepts three integers / arrayref with three integers in format of "localtime". DAY can be from 1 to 31, MONTH from 0 to 11, YEAR from 0 to 199.

Default value: today's date.

Selects the day in month.
The format string is used when converting date to its visual interpretation, also with regional preferences, like YYYY-MM-DD or DD/MM/YY. The syntax of the format is exctly this, it recognizes fixed patterns YYYY, YY, MM, and DD, replacing them with the date values.
Selects the month.
Selects the year.

AUTHOR

Dmitry Karasik, <dmitry@karasik.eu.org>.

SEE ALSO

Prima::ComboBox, Prima::Calendar

2023-09-05 perl v5.26.1