override locale in datebox

[HamsterofDeath]

hi,

i've been trying to figure this out for hours.
i have a simple datebox. in swing, i'd just take my locale and apply
it to a dateformatter. using the gwt, i don't have a locale
(LocaleInfo.getAvailableLocaleNames() only returns "default") and i
don't have a dateformatter (not available in client code).

what can i do now? i just want to make the datebox format the date
according to a specific locale. why isn't there a simple setter or
something?

[John A. Tamplin]

GWT is only running one locale at a time -- you specify the set of locales you want to build your app with, and then only the strings / formats for that locale are downloaded to the user.  See http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideI18nLocale.html for more info.

Once you set the locales you want, then your date box will be formatted appropriately for the locale it is running in.

[Dennis Haupt]

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my requirement is to be able to change the locale on the fly. i've
cheated by asking the server for a date format which i get out of a
simpledateformat via reflection.

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[John Tamplin]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Dennis Haupt <d.ha...@googlemail.com> wrote:

my requirement is to be able to change the locale on the fly. i've
cheated by asking the server for a date format which i get out of a
simpledateformat via reflection.

Right, all of GWT's i18n support is designed to do as much as possible at compile time rather than runtime -- if you don't want that, you need to do it on the server (you could do it yourself on the client, but the time/speed penalty is pretty large).

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John A. Tamplin
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