I am facing an issue in my Flex application.
I am creating some array collections and storing date objects in it.In the later part of the application I will create 'advanceddatagridcolumns' with these array collections as the data sources.
Initially while creating the Array Col , I do have the 'formats' given by user, for each array collection eg. '1995/06/25' but in the later part I have no access to these formats. I want to display this dates in the data grid in same way as the user has specified. Right now, it displays it in the default format 'Sun Jun 25 00:00:00 GMT+0530 1995' instead of '1995/06/25'.
I have a common 'labelFunction' for these advancedatagridcolumns, and thus I can not use the DateFormatter as I 'formatstring' would be different for different columns.
So is there some way to display/retrieve the date in the same format as stored and not in the default way. Or while creating the date object can't I specify that I would always like it to be returned in some desired format.
Best Answer
The Date class in Flex as far, as my experiences go, is not very versatile. My hunch is that this is by no means possible with the regular framework capabilities.
However, if the date does not need to be changed after the user has input it, you might just want to save it as String and only create a temporary ArrayCollection of Dates for displaying them. This way you don't need to worry about the format changing because you're saving the original value.
How are you parsing the dates anyway? I mean that are you finding out the format yourself with RegExps or such, or using the parse method of the Date class?