[Kstars-devel] set the date - is it working?

[Jason Harris]

On Wednesday 09 February 2005 03:17 pm, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> The question is: *how* do I set the date? I press ctrl+s and I change
> 2005-02-09 with 3033-02-09. I press ok and the date stays 2005-02-09...!
>
Oh, I see now.  Sorry for misunderstanding.  That date field is for display 
only, you aren't supposed to be able to change the date there.  I agree that 
it's confusing, but this is something we inherited from the KDE 
KDateTimePicker widget (for example, try changing the date this way in the 
kicker clock applet, you'll get the same frustrating non-function).

If you want to set the year, the trick is to click on the Year number 
displayed above the date grid.  That will pop up a line edit where you can 
enter the desired year.  This is probably not very intuitive, although when 
you mouse over the year label, it is highlighted like a button, and its tip 
text is "Select a year".

I will make the ExtDatePicker date display widget read-only to avoid this 
confusion.  I'm not sure why KDatePicker does it this way.

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