Re: Matisse is throwing exception until I restart NetBeans

2006/11/14, Witold Szczerba <[email protected]>:
> > I think it is planned for Java 7. But have you tried the SwingX component?
> > There is also a JXDatePicker.
> >
>
> Yes, I am trying to use it, but it is not working with my current
> binding system. I am using JGoodies binding (simple bean binding using
> internally addPropertyChangeListener on both beans), this JXDatePicker
> is not acting like a javabean - it is not firing propertychange events
> when date field has changed :(
> I have to download sources to see what actually is fired when date changes.
>

That is not all. I have just figured out that this date picker is
totally unusable when you have to deal with null values. Null pointer
exception is thrown and component size is changing to minimum width :/
Is it that hard to foresee that people can have nulls in database?

Actually this is some kind of plague in Swing components. Why nobody
did not figured out that people would like to attach those components
to database where value can be null. The same I have with spinner, but
there I am using value 0 when there is null in database.
But what date I am suppose to use when there is no date? Current one? Absurd.