Display calendar to pick a date in java

In other languages like VB, C#, in occasions where you want the user to enter a date, say in a text box,we can make a calendar to appear once you click on it. So the user can click on the corresponding date and that date will be put to the text box.

By that way we can get rid of problems that can be caused due to dates in an incorrect format. I need to know how we can achieve this in java?

Actually, I need to combine this with a JTable. there is a column where the date need to be entered. But users may enter dates in various formats. So I thought of going to something like this. Hope there is a way to do this, easily.

Will anyone please show me how to do this. Any help is greatly appreciated..

Thank you.

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I wrote a DateTextField component.

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Cursor;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Date;

import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JDialog;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JSpinner;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.SpinnerNumberModel;
import javax.swing.SwingConstants;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.border.LineBorder;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeEvent;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeListener;

public class DateTextField extends JTextField {

    private static String DEFAULT_DATE_FORMAT = "MM/dd/yyyy";
    private static final int DIALOG_WIDTH = 200;
    private static final int DIALOG_HEIGHT = 200;

    private SimpleDateFormat dateFormat;
    private DatePanel datePanel = null;
    private JDialog dateDialog = null;

    public DateTextField() {
        this(new Date());
    }

    public DateTextField(String dateFormatPattern, Date date) {
        this(date);
        DEFAULT_DATE_FORMAT = dateFormatPattern;
    }

    public DateTextField(Date date) {
        setDate(date);
        setEditable(false);
        setCursor(new Cursor(Cursor.HAND_CURSOR));
        addListeners();
    }

    private void addListeners() {
        addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
            public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent paramMouseEvent) {
                if (datePanel == null) {
                    datePanel = new DatePanel();
                }
                Point point = getLocationOnScreen();
                point.y = point.y + 30;


                        
                        
                            answered 2012-07-31T11:24:53.843

Display calendar to pick a date in java

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