Hi Ilkka,

thanks; I must admit that I'd prefer to find a simpler solution, but if 
everything else fails your solution would indeeed help me to get along.

Thanks again,

greetings
Stefan

On 09.02.2010 19:10, Ilkka Oksanen wrote:
> Hi Stevan,
>
> This is not Qooxdoo related proposal but if you have the date as a sting
> in one format and want just to convert it to another format can't you
> just do:
>
> var date = "Tue Feb 09 2010 00:00:00 GMT+0100";
> var m=[];
>
> m["Jan"]="01";m["Feb"]="02";m["Mar"]="03";m["Apr"]="04";m["May"]="05";m["Jun"]="06";
> m["Jul"]="07";m["Aug"]="08";m["Sep"]="09";m["Oct"]="10";m["Nov"]="11";m["Dec"]="12";
>
> f = date.match(/^\w+ (\w+) (\d+) (\d+)/);
>
> var newdate = f[3] + "/" + m[f[1]] + "/" + f[2];
>
> alert(newdate);
>
> Or similar.
>
>                -ilkka
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Stefan Volbers <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi there,
>
>     since the form api changed in qooxdoo 1.0, there seems to be no
>     (documented) way to read the value which is entered into the DateField's
>     input widget.
>
>     Actually I need to transmit the literal value displayed in the DateField
>     to the database backend ("2010/02/09"), not the javascript date object
>     string ("Tue Feb 09 2010 00:00:00 GMT+0100"). This breaks on the qooxdoo
>     1.0 migration. Plus, I export a data report into a pdf, parameters are
>     coded into GET parameters; this breaks, too, and forces me to handle
>     different data consumers. Way too much hassle, so I'd prefer to stay
>     with the classic date representation.
>
>     This thing cost me nearly the entire last night (trying to fix the pdf
>     report class, ultimately finding that the solution breaks in IE7...).
>
>     No idea if DateField's getContentElement() method would the way to go,
>     and I'm sick of trial-and-error for today, so I'd really appreciate any
>     clue...
>
>     Greetings,
>     Stefan

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