SUMMARY In the date picker, selecting the date (often the default selection when the application opens the date picker) allows up/down arrow, but only between the first and last date of the month. I would like this scrolling to go past the month boundary. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Trigger a date picker in any app 2. Select the date 3. Try to down arrouw past 1 or up past the last day of month OBSERVED RESULT The date stops at either 1 or the last date of the month DESIRED RESULT Scrolling down from 1 should reset to the last date of the previous month (or even year) and scrolling up from the last date of the month should go to the first date of the next month (or even year.) I can imagine this might be configurable whether the user wants this behavior or not. SOFTWARE VERSIONS (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.12.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.50.0 Qt Version: 5.9.6 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Are you talking about the date field that you get when running "kcmshell5 clock"?
No, but that one has a similar effect. If you click into the seconds part of the time display, then the up or down arrow circles from 0 -> 59 -> 0 but when it goes from 59 to 0, the minutes don't go up by one. (I don't think that's really a problem in this case, I'm just trying to explain.) My use case is with the transaction date in KMyMoney. I'll have to go dig into the code to see exactly which widget is being used.
It looks like the lineedit date entry below the calendar in "kcmshell5 clock" but behaves differently. It looks like a line edit, but acts as if the date, month, and year are separate widgets. I thought it might be the KDateWidget, but as I search the KMyMoney source, it looks like it might actually be a custom widget. I'll have to confirm with the KMyMoney developers.
Jack refers to the KMyMoneyDateInput widget which is based on QDateEdit with a bit of magic around it. One of the magical things it provides is the feature Jack asks for by simply using the + and - key. This is even documented in the paragraph below the date widget shown on https://docs.kde.org/stable4/en/extragear-office/kmymoney/reference.widgets.html#reference.widgets.datepicker
Thomas - that's not the widget I'm talking about, unless it also covers the case in the transaction editor when it's only the line edit portion visible. Also, I've only tried the up and down arrows (including the arrows to the right of the date.) If +/- does what I want (I'll test later) I might just change this to also recognizing the arrow keys.
OK, my bad for not digging deeper. The + and - do exactly what I want. The doc which you link to is also identical in stable5, which just reminds me how far behind I am in updating the manual for 5.x. This is already a wishlist - should I reassign to KMM specifically to extend the +/- behavior to the up and down arrow keys, and optionally, the up and down arrows to the right of the line edit.
I just discovered that the current behavior is only partly what I want. I had not realized that the +/- change day, no matter where the cursor is in the line edit, where the up and down arrows work on the specific part of the date showing the cursor (day, month, or year). I would like to be able to go up from December, landing on January of the next year, with the day unchanged. I suppose that would take a bit more "magic" and thus moving this off to an even further "eventually."
I am still not sure which widget class you are using. It might even be a simple QDateTimeEdit, making this ticket an upstream request.
cfeck: see Comment #4. It turns out to be a custom widget in KMM, which is why in Comment 6 I asked if it would be more appropriate to reassign this to KMM, but I'd prefer Thomas respond before I do that.
Reassigning to KMyMoney developers to investigate which widget is actually used.
Git commit a9b6160f3cbd1c440ae9aff515dbf07132a0eeed by Thomas Baumgart. Committed on 23/02/2019 at 13:38. Pushed by tbaumgart into branch '5.0'. Improve date change feature The current behavior of the + and - key in a date selection widget was to increase or decrease by day and roll over into the next resp. previous month. This has been enhanced to increase/decrease by day/month/year depending on the current section holding the cursor with the month doing a roll over into the next/previous year. M +18 -2 kmymoney/widgets/kmymoneydateinput.cpp https://commits.kde.org/kmymoney/a9b6160f3cbd1c440ae9aff515dbf07132a0eeed