Autoit GUI Calendar Problem

[ToyBoi]

Hello everyone. I was playing around with the examples in the Autoit help file for GUI Calendars

and this example poped up

this example is for the function _GUICtrlMonthCal_GetCurSelStr which retrieves the currently selected date in string format

but when I tried it, whenever I select a date, the information does not updated in the bottom message box. Isn't this function supposed to retriever the date that has been selected.

What I am trying to do is have a similar calendar and when a user selects a date I want autoit to be able to store that information in three separate variables, year, month and date. and then use that information to later interact with a website that has it's own calendar.

Any help is appreciated

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#AutoIt3Wrapper_au3check_parameters=-d -w 1 -w 2 -w 3 -w 4 -w 5 -w 6
#include <GuiConstantsEx.au3>
#include <GuiMonthCal.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>

Opt('MustDeclareVars', 1)

$Debug_MC = False; Check ClassName being passed to MonthCal functions, set to True and use a handle to another control to see it work

Global $iMemo

_Main()

Func _Main()
    Local $hMonthCal

   ; Create GUI
    GUICreate("Month Calendar Get Cur Sel String", 400, 300)
    $hMonthCal = GUICtrlCreateMonthCal("", 4, 4, -1, -1, $WS_BORDER, 0x00000000)
    
   ; Create memo control
    $iMemo = GUICtrlCreateEdit("", 4, 168, 392, 128, 0)
    GUICtrlSetFont($iMemo, 9, 400, 0, "Courier New")
    GUISetState()

   ; Get current selection
    MemoWrite("Current selection : " & _GUICtrlMonthCal_GetCurSelStr($hMonthCal))

   ; Loop until user exits
    Do
    Until GUIGetMsg() = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
    GUIDelete()
EndFunc  ;==>_Main

; Write message to memo
Func MemoWrite($sMessage)
    GUICtrlSetData($iMemo, $sMessage & @CRLF, 1)
EndFunc  ;==>MemoWrite

[AdmiralAlkex]

Dude, look at the code, _GUICtrlMonthCal_GetCurSelStr() is only run after the gui is created, not when you press on anything. If you need that then make it yourself, see the example for _GUICtrlMonthCal_Create() on how to react when changing date

Edited February 20, 2009 by AdmiralAlkex

[ToyBoi]

Dude, look at the code, _GUICtrlMonthCal_GetCurSelStr() is only run after the gui is created, not when you press on anything. If you need that then make it yourself, see the example for _GUICtrlMonthCal_Create() on how to react when changing date

Sorry but I'm still unable to figure it out, I tried read the example and changing some of the codes but just couldn't get it to work. could you please give me some more hints? thanks

[Robjong]

Hey ToyBoi,

post the code you have so far, then we can help you to make it work

[jimollerhead]

It seems unfortunate that if you want the datepicker to present pretty wordy dates, you have to do any conversion yourself. It can often be easier to use your own function to do a conversion and then compare the integer values in order to do date arithmetic... here's an example from one of my recent programs (slightly adapted to give a standalone test):

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

Dim $DateId

Dim $DateInteger

GUICreate ("Date reformat", 200, 100, -1, -1)

GUICtrlCreateLabel("Choose Date", 10, 10)

$DateId = GUICtrlCreateDate ("", 10, 40, 120)

GUISetState()

While GUIGetMsg() <> $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE

WEnd

$DateInteger = DateToInt(GUICtrlRead($DateId))

MsgBox(0,"Converted Dates", "Date Integer: " & $DateInteger)

Func DateToInt($InDate)

Dim $DateArray

Dim $MonthNum

$DateArray = StringSplit($InDate, " ", 2)

Switch $DateArray[1]

Case "January"

$MonthNum = "01"

Case "February"

$MonthNum = "02"

Case "March"

$MonthNum = "03"

Case "April"

$MonthNum = "04"

Case "May"

$MonthNum = "05"

Case "June"

$MonthNum = "06"

Case "July"

$MonthNum = "07"

Case "August"

$MonthNum = "08"

Case "September"

$MonthNum = "09"

Case "October"

$MonthNum = "10"

Case "November"

$MonthNum = "11"

Case "December"

$MonthNum = "12"

EndSwitch

Return Int($DateArray[2] & $MonthNum & $DateArray[0])

EndFunc