Description Al B 2010-06-10 13:27:31 EDT

Running the the snippet below on Windows or with Carbon, one can use the keyboard arrows to navigate inside the DateTime widget.  Also, the Page Up and Page Down keys change the month backwards and forwards.

However, these events are not triggered on Cocoa.


import org.eclipse.swt.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.*;

public class Snippet250 {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Display display = new Display();
		Shell shell = new Shell(display);
		shell.setLayout(new RowLayout());

		final DateTime calendar = new DateTime(shell, SWT.CALENDAR);
		calendar.addSelectionListener(new SelectionAdapter() {
			@Override
			public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent e) {
				System.out.println ("Calendar date selected (MM/DD/YYYY) = " + (calendar.getMonth () + 1) + "/" + calendar.getDay () + "/" + calendar.getYear ());				
			}
		});
		
		calendar.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter() {
			@Override
			public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
				if (e.keyCode == SWT.CR || e.keyCode == SWT.KEYPAD_CR) {
					System.out.println("calendar date changed");
				}
			}
		});

		shell.pack();
		shell.open();
		while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
			if (!display.readAndDispatch())
				display.sleep();
		}
		display.dispose();
	}
}