Date Values

[Daniel Kasak <dkasak nusconsulting com au>]

I'm getting back to the idea of using Gtk2::TieScalar and 
Gtk2::TieArrayRef to tie fields on a form to an array, and use a helper 
object to load the array and handle updates.

We have a problem with date fields. People in Australia are expecting 
dates in the format dd-mm-yyyy, and everything else seems to be 
yyyy-mm-dd. To get around this, I have been using GtkCalendar, so they 
can click the date and not worry about manual input. But this won't work 
with a GtkCalendar, will it?

I've had a look at Gtk2::CellRendererDate in the examples directory ( 
which does a cool pop-down GtkCalendar ), but this only applies to cells 
in a TreeView, doesn't it? I want to have these laid out via glade on 
the form.

I can use MySQL's date_format() to format dates so they *look* familiar 
to people, but updating the database from data entered by people is a 
problem, unless my helper object somehow knows it's dealing with a date, 
and reverses the month / day fields.

What options do I have?

Dan

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