在下面的视频当中，我将会为大家介绍如何使用Spark DateTimeFormatter来创建小的应用程序。
Play Video – DateTimeFormatterDemo
这是第一次尝试以视频的模式来介绍，所以希望大家多多指点，有任何的需求可以给我留言，我们会考虑在日后添加更多类似的视频教程。
随着Flex 4.5的推出，一些有关globalization（全球化）的新功能也随之出炉。考虑到开发者对程序全球化的开发需求，我们为此创建了一批与全球化相关的新功能的示例。这些示例主要涵盖以下这些类：
DateTimeFormatter
CurrencyFormatter
NumberFormatter
MatchingCollator
SortingCollator
NumberValidator
CurrencyValidator
StringTool
Sort and SortField
目前这些示例多为英语，我们正在考虑添加更多的中文示例。开发者可以通过从Adobe官网安装‘Tour De Flex’ 来获得这些示例, 安装地址为：http://www.adobe.com/cn/devnet/flex/tourdeflex/
In the coming new release of Flex SDK – ‘Hero’, it provides new features on the globalization support. DateTimeFormatter is such a class can help you format a date in locale-sensitive way. In this article, I will introduce you how to create an application to format a date based on locale setting.
First, you need to install the IDE for developing a Flex application, Flash Builder or Eclipse are all good choices. Then, you can download the Flex SDK ‘Hero’ from http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK . After set up development environment, we can go ahead to build our application.
First, create a comboBox in which contains different locales for users to choose.
<s:ComboBox id=”localesCB” dataProvider=”{ new ArrayCollection(['ar-SA','en-GB','fr-FR','ja-JP','ru-RU','zh-CN'])}”/>
Second, create an instance of DateTimeFormatter (which is under spark namespace) in MXML declarations, and bind its locale property with above comboBox’s selected value.
<fx:Declarations>
<s:DateTimeFormatter id=”dtf” locale=”{localesCB.selectedItem}”/>
</fx:Declarations>
Then, create a dateChooser to pick up the date to format.
<mx:DateChooser id=”dateDC”/>
At last, since the format function of DateTimeFormatter is bindable, we can bind its format result with a label. That will be:
<s:Label id=”resultL” text=”{dtf.format(dateDC.selectedDate)}”/>
DONE! That is all you need to do! Really simple, right?
Let us see what does the app looks like:
When choose en-GB as locale:
When choose zh-CN as locale:
When choose ar-SA as locale:
For more info about DateTimeFormatter, please visit: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/beta/reference/actionscript/3/spark/formatters/DateTimeFormatter.html
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