Just a thought but with this new date picker going everywhere, could be maybe get the ability to have a date picker in a ?Prompt dialogue for a nice way to handle entering dates?
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Think should change this to a request, got a couple of like but would be interested to see what kendash and q think?
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What do you think they think? lol…
I think it’s a good idea and would like to think they would agree lol
I checked it but we don’t have a specific data type as date? How we’ll display it?
Good question. Is going to need some form of mask option for how to format as a string…
Maybe an option as to if it should be a string for visual use like tags or a full timestamp for use with date based expressions/constraints?
I think [?prompt] syntax is complicated enough.
Maybe we need a new type of “input selector” that could also be turned into a Widget. A date picker Widget would be fantastic.
Maybe like:
[#<pickerType>;<returnFormat>;<label>;<default>]
// invokes Date Picker, returns selection as: 2016-06-18_14.49.37
[#DATE;{DATE:yyyy-MM-dd_HH.mm.ss}]
// invokes Date Picker, returns selection as: 18 Jun 2016
[#DATE;{DATE:dd mmm yyyy}]
// invokes Color Picker, returns selection as: #FF445566
[#COLOR;{COLOR:hex}]
// invokes Color Picker, returns selection as: rgba(68,85,102,1)
[#COLOR;{COLOR:rgba}]
So for example, this is what the Punch Editor Prompts look like right now …
[?Enter new Start;;{SETTING:PEstart}]
Instead of using [?prompt], if we had a picker input type, like this:
[#DATE;{DATE:yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss};Enter new Start;{SETTING:PEstart}]
[#DATE;{DATE:yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss};Enter new End;{SETTING:PEend}]
Then the Punch Editor start/end dates could be as such …
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That is exactly along the lines of what I was thinking but you explain much better ;-).
Interesting idea on the colour picker, do you have a use in mind?
No, not yet, but I was thinking for future of a “selector/picker” input type, it could be extended later using specific keywords like DATE, TIME, COLOR, FILE (ie. invokes Browse dialog)
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