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

NAME

Prima::Widget::Date - standard 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 widget, derived from the "Prima::InputLine" class.

API

Methods

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

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

Tries to extract the date from the 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 if D, M, Y form a valid date, and adjusts the values if not. Returns the corrected values.

Properties

Accepts three integers / arrayref with three integers in the 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 of the month.
The format string is used when converting the date to its visual interpretation, also with regional preferences, f ex YYYY-MM-DD or DD/MM/YY. The syntax of the format is verbatim as this, i e 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

2024-02-01 perl v5.38.2