Name: rm29839 Date: 01/28/98


I've seen several reports talking about missing
functionality with DateFormat and FieldPosition.
My particular problem isn't specifically addressed
by any of those reports (I believe).

I'm writing an i18ized DateTime text component. A
critical need for this is the ability to ask what
field a particular character position is. When a
user clicks in the text field, I need to know what
options they have for manipulating the internal
time/date value. The only way I can do that is
to determine exactly what field the cursor is in.

I don't think it's practical to step through calling
"format" with FieldPositions set for every possible
time/date field type until I find the one that my
character position is in the range of. I suppose I
can concieve of building a sorted (by beginindex)
list beforehand, but that still seems pretty painful.
(Review ID: 23604)
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