LocalDateCombo is a Swing date picker for selecting a java.time.LocalDate from a drop-down MonthView. As with MonthView, the no-arg constructor creates a LocalDateCombo set to the current date, with no upper or lower limits. Additionally, this uses a default format corresponding to java.time.format.FormatStyle.MEDIUM
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Year Month Spinner
YearMonthSpinner is a composite of two Temporal spinners, one for the month and the other for the year, used to select a java.time.YearMonth. For ease of use, the spinner buttons are located towards the outer edges of the composite component.
Temporal Spinners
JSpinner was designed to work with Dates, Lists or Numbers. With the introduction of a new Date/Time API in Java 8, wouldn’t it be great to be able to create date or time spinners that use the new classes? SpinnerTemporalModel and SpinnerTemporalEditor make that possible.
Swing and Java 8
Java 7 brought us JLayer (which I haven’t played with), Generics in JComboBox and JList, and a lonely collections-oriented JList#getSelectedValuesList(). Java 8, on the other hand, did not introduce any new Swing API. However, enhanced language features can certainly make Swing code less verbose and more maintainable, and the new Date/Time API makes it easier than ever before to create interactive Swing components for date and/or time selection.
Month View
MonthView is a composite of a YearMonthSpinner and a tabular calendar display of the selected month. The table can be navigated with the arrow keys, and the month can be changed by the mouse scroll wheel. Optionally, a link for setting the value to the current date can be displayed. Clicking on a displayed date sets it as the selected value.
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