[Laszlo-user] Date issue (convertion from string)

[Jean-Baptiste BRIAUD]

That works
1. because of using getFullYear() with getYear() it failed
2. because of extra parenthesis (date_birth).getFullYear(); it failed 
with just date_birth.getFullYear();

Now the question is why ?
Is it due to Javascript interpreter embeded in Flash ?
If yes, we should not reproduce it in DHTML, am I right ?

This a real question for business application that are known to use a 
lot of Date.

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<canvas width="800" >
<simplelayout axis="y" spacing="5"/>
<text width="800" id="pouette"/>
<button text="OK">
<handler name="onclick">
 var date_birth = new Date("2005", "11", "3");
 var thisYear = (new Date()).getFullYear();
 var age = thisYear - (date_birth).getFullYear();
 pouette.setText(date_birth + " : " + thisYear + " : " + age);
</handler>
</button>
</canvas>

Jean-Baptiste BRIAUD wrote:
> (new Date()).getFullYear()
> return 2007 witch look like correct, but
> (new Date()).getYear()
> return 107 if there is no graphical artifact on my side witch is 
> obviously incorrect.
>
> Someone confirm or I'm too tired ?
>
> Jean-Baptiste BRIAUD wrote:
>> I added more debug :
>>  var date_birth = new Date('1/1/2006');
>>  var thisYear = new Date().getYear();
>>  var age = thisYear - date_birth.getYear();
>>  pouette.setText(date_birth + " : " + thisYear + " : " + age);
>>
>> The text show -> Invalid date : undefined : NaN
>>
>> So, apparently, the probleme is  on date_birth first,
>> note that does not mean there is no bug on getYear() (I'll try right 
>> now).
>>
>>
>> P T Withington wrote:
>>> Looks like a bug with the SWF compiler.  Please file at 
>>> http://jira.openlaszlo.org.
>>>
>>> As a work-around, try:
>>>
>>>   thisYear =(new Date).getFullYear()
>>>
>>> which I just tested and appears to work correctly.
>>>
>>> On 2007-07-23, at 14:31 EDT, Jean-Baptiste BRIAUD wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi the list !
>>>>
>>>> Any idea why that code produce NaN ?
>>>> I'm not sure about the OL version since I tried that snipset online 
>>>> with
>>>> http://www.openlaszlo.org/lps/laszlo-explorer/index.jsp?navset=nav10.xml&bookmark=Introduction 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When I try my full code with 4.0.2 I got this error :
>>>> WARNING: pet-create-1.lzx:329: reference to undefined property 
>>>> 'getFullYear'
>>>> ERROR: Compiler.substitute:-1: undefined object does not have a 
>>>> property 'make'
>>>>
>>>> Are there known issue with JavaScript Date Object ?
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------
>>>> <canvas width="200" >
>>>> <simplelayout axis="y" spacing="5"/>
>>>> <text id="pouette"/>
>>>> <button text="OK">
>>>> <handler name="onclick">
>>>>  var date_birth = new Date("1/1/2006");
>>>>  var thisYear = new Date().getFullYear();
>>>>  var age = thisYear - date_birth.getFullYear();
>>>>  pouette.setText(age);
>>>> </handler>
>>>> </button>
>>>> </canvas>
>>>>
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