Thanks John. Your tip pointed me in the right direction.
Basically I changed my code from
$("#mycontrol").datepicker("getDate")
to
$.datepicker._getInst($("#mycontrol")[0]._calId)._getDate()
Had to go digging in the ui.datepicker code though to work out the
specific function. (and confirm the formatDate function is still there)
This *seems* to be doing what I need for now. I'm sure I'll encounter a
bug or two as I get deeper into the code though. This at least gets me
past the initial date hurdles - which were significant seeing as
everything is driven from the user entered dates.
Shawn
John Morrison wrote:
I had the problem the other week, basically the datepicker doesn't let you
do getDate until after it's been displayed. I emailed the folks who wrote
datepicker and they did get back with a solution, but that's at work and
I'm not for the next week.
I can get it you then... but from memory,
$('#dFrom').datepicker({
defaultDate: '-1m',
minDate: '-3m'
});
set the date correctly, to get the date you need the instance...
$.datepicker._getInst($('#dFrom')[0]._calId)._getMinMaxDate('min')
that gets the MinMaxDate, I can't remember what the GetDate function is
called.
You might be interested in the rest of the code, two textboxes with custom
range with overall min/max set...
$('#dTo').datepicker({
maxDate: 0
});
// Customize two date pickers to work as a date range
function customRange(input) {
return {
minDate: (input.id == 'dTo' ?
$('#dFrom').datepicker('getDate') :
$.datepicker._getInst($('#dFrom')[0]._calId)._getMinMaxDate('min')),
maxDate: (input.id == 'dFrom' ?
$('#dTo').datepicker('getDate') :
$.datepicker._getInst($('#dTo')[0]._calId)._getMinMaxDate('max'))
};
}
Sorry I can't give you the exact code, but I think once you get the
instance you've got the rest.
J.
