Question

I’m using the MX DateField control in Flex and want to display the date as 01 Jul 2011 or 01 July 2011. Does anyone know how to do this? I tried setting the formatString to “DD MMM YYYY” but it didn’t work.

Answer 1

This works:

<fx:Declarations>
    <mx:DateFormatter id="myDf" formatString="DD MMM YYYY"/>
</fx:Declarations>
<fx:Script>
    <![CDATA[
        private function formatDate(date:Date):String{
            return myDf.format(date);
        }
    ]]>
</fx:Script>
<mx:DateField id="dateField" labelFunction="formatDate" />

Found it in the LiveDocs at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?content=controls_12.html

However this does not explain why the formatString property on the component does not work properly.
I can confirm that it does not work as expected.

Cheers