s:selectDate startYear problem

[pdhaigh]

Hi,

<h:inputText size="10" id="dobinput" value="#{customer.dob}">
 <s:convertDateTime pattern="dd/MM/yyyy"/>
 <a4j:support event="onblur" reRender="dob" ajaxSingle="true"/>
</h:inputText>
<s:selectDate for="dobinput" startYear="1910" dateFormat="dd/MM/yyyy">
 <h:graphicImage url="../images/dtpick.gif" style="margin-left:5px;cursor:pointer"/>
</s:selectDate>

Does not appear to honour the startYear attribute...

(This is Seam 2 from CVS ~2 weeks ago)

[shane.bryzak]

I just tried the seamspace example and the startYear/endYear attributes are working fine there. However, this is moot as the selectDate control has just been deprecated in favour of the RichFaces date control.

[pdhaigh]

Thats rather unfortunate to need to include RichFaces for a project just for the date feature.. :-(

[pmuir]

Well the logic is that you are probably using *some* extra JSF component library on top of the basic impl (e.g. Trinidad, RF, Icefaces) - pretty much every one provides a calendar control. And Seam doesn't need to reinvent the wheel here (we got a *lot* of issues with the control that tied up dev time)

[pdhaigh]

I must be being pretty stupid... where is the Richfaces date control? It doesn't appear to have one in 3.0.1 (the latest)?

[pmuir]

3.1.0 (currently at rc6, GA this week I think)

[supernovasoftware.com]

Seam should focus on integration with other projects and not have controls that are already implemented and proven stable in other libraries.

For example

quartz integration. +1

Pete's Trinidad/Richfaces example. +1

Itext Integration +1

I can't wait for the RF 3.1 integration example. :)

[pmuir]

+10 - we don't have time to reinvent the wheel ;)