Re: GWT 2.1 DateTimeFormat & locale changes?

2010-12-02 Thread Rick Porter
I think I have solved my date/time issues by forcing a locale, but I would welcome suggestions for a better solution. In my module XML, I added the following line to include some internationalization code: I added the following line to my module XML for my locale: Including the locale

GWT 2.1 DateTimeFormat & locale changes?

2010-11-23 Thread Rick Porter
Hello, I recently made some tool updates to Helios & GWT 2.1, and everything looks pretty good. However, I am seeing some changed behavior regarding the date/time formatting and locales. Previously, my "out- of-the-box" compile gave me "en-US" formatting (12 hr times, week starting on Sun, and mm

Re: How to get the next "day of week" date?

2010-11-17 Thread Rick Porter
I have not tested the edge conditions around daylight savings times, but I found this useful: import com.google.gwt.user.datepicker.client.CalendarUtil; Date now = new Date(); int nDays = 1; CalendarUtil.addDaysToDate(now, nDays); The number of days can be negative if you need to go back. There

Re: Handling session timeout

2010-10-15 Thread Rick Porter
There are many ways to handle it. You should decide what is important to your users and for your environment, and how you define a session expiration. In one GWT application, I use the Google UserService to get the current user on the server side. I make sure the user is logged in at the start, an

Re: Handling session timeout

2010-10-15 Thread Rick Porter
There are many ways to handle it, but you need to consider how to present it to your users and other constraints specific to your environment. In one GWT app, I did nothing to detect client-side inactivity. I used the Google UserService to detect session expiration on the server side whenever ther