Date Time Picker like in Windows

Question

I am looking for a component for Swing that would do the same thing that Windows 7 date and time pickers do (or be even better). They look so:

And have following features I need:

• you cannot enter an invalid value (value is ignored as you type and not when you leave the field)
• it allows continuous updating of the field until the first change made by user (take a look on the time setting in Windows 7)
• you can select and change at once only one position - not the whole text at once (so colons and points cannot be removed)
• up and down buttons
• calendar button (but it's rather optional for me)

I have tried JSpinner with a DateEditor but it doesn't have this features. JXDatePicker only adds the calendar button.

Generally I am looking for a nice way to let user enter date and time in a powerful and simple way. Windows 7 solution seems to be quite good.

Thank you!

Answer 1

best and free DatePickers around are JXDatePicker and JCalendar, in both cases are there focus about correct implementations of Date and Focus workaround, and excelent Renderer and Editor for JTree / JTreeTable / JTable

to your needs ---> all these funcionalities are implemented by default, not clear from your questions exactly whats wrong, I'm Win7 and JXDatePicker and JCalendar but I never saw these issues,

in both cases you have to implementing own workaround for SpecialDays as hollydays (and etc),