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by: fcruz. PHP programming Blogs.
Date pickers are essentials for any developer , wether you program in PHP , JAVA , C , .NET we always need to capture dates which usually later on are sent to a Database. I found a great option for JAVA Developers.

JCalendar its a free project , after looking for a good two hours and after checking several commercial versions for $119 or $89 i found this great tool.

I was so happy, the idea of paying for a date picker for an university project sucked !

You can download JCalendar version 1.3.2 directly from my website here

I also recommend to check the project's website here:

http://www.toedter.com/en/jcalendar/index.html

I develop in Java using Netbeans , pretty much the installation is easy, i created a separate folder where I added the jar files provided , you will need to create a new JFRAME , then on the right side where you have the SWING tools you need to make a right click and select the palette manager.

Once you click on the palette manager you will see something like this:



Click on the add from JAR option button and browse to the location where you stored the JAR files.

Select the controls you desire:



Once you highlight the control click on NEXT and then finish.

Voila ! , that will load the controls and you will see the day picker , month picker , calendar and others.

This is really a neat tool , and its free ...

Thanks a lot for this beautiful tool TOEDTER.COM





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